Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It

What's gone wrong at our colleges and universities―and how to get American higher education back on trackA quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier universities. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it?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 pr...

By Andrew Hacker
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Times Books; 1 edition (August 3, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0805087346
ISBN-13: 978-0805087345
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.7 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 361618
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Some of the authors' assertions I have read elsewhere (e.g., the amount of money colleges and universities waste on sports, levels of debt carried by students), but these authors flush them out in a nice bit of detail.This book is the ultimate antido

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