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Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It
Higher Education How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kidsand What We Can Do About It
Author: Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus
A quarter of a million dollars. It?s the going tab for four years at most top-tier colleges. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it?  In this provocative investigation, the renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that the American way of higher education?now a $420 billion-per-year ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780312573430
ISBN-10: 031257343X
Publication Date: 8/2/2011
Pages: 304
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I checked this out on a whim as I heard the authors being interviewed on NPR on my drive to the library. I like the big ideas they raise (abolish tenure, sabbaticals, & competitive athletics, send every American to college) but I was irritated by the argumentative tone in their writing. The sounded much more reasonable on the radio! I'm not connected to an academic community to know how much of a stir this created. Interesting to think about, but I don't see any of their proposals happening any time soon.
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