Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It
by 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 business―has lost sight of its primary mission: the education of our young people. They probe the true performance of the Ivy League, the baleful influence of tenure, an unhealthy reliance on part-time teachers, and supersized bureaucracies which now have lives of their own.
Hacker and Dreifus take readers from Princeton and Harvard to Evergreen State, revealing those institutions that need to adjust their priorities and others that are getting it right, proving that learning can be achieved―and at a much more reasonable price. Higher Education? is a wake-up call and a call to arms.
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