The Resource Higher education? : how colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids-- and what we can do about it, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus
Higher education? : how colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids-- and what we can do about it, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus
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- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 271 p.
- Contents
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- World of the professoriate
- Administrative overload
- Contingent education
- The golden dozen
- Teaching: good, great, abysmal
- The triumph of training
- Why college costs so much
- Fireproof: the tangled issue of tenure
- The athletics incubus
- Student bodies
- Visiting the future in Florida
- The college crucible: add students and stir
- Schools we like: our top ten list
- Isbn
- 9780805087345
- Label
- Higher education? : how colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids-- and what we can do about it
- Title
- Higher education?
- Title remainder
- how colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids-- and what we can do about it
- Statement of responsibility
- Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Calling for a thorough overhaul of a self-indulgent system, the authors 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 young adults. Taking readers on a road trip from Princeton to Evergreen State to Florida Gulf Coast University, Hacker and Dreifus reveal those faculties and institutions that are getting it right and proving that teaching and learning can be achieved--and at a much more reasonable price
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- 368447
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hacker, Andrew
- Dewey number
- 378.73
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- LA227.4
- LC item number
- .H33 2010+
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Dreifus, Claudia
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Education, Higher
- College costs
- College teachers
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- how colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids, and what we can do about it
- Label
- Higher education? : how colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids-- and what we can do about it, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-254) and index
- Contents
- World of the professoriate -- Administrative overload -- Contingent education -- The golden dozen -- Teaching: good, great, abysmal -- The triumph of training -- Why college costs so much -- Fireproof: the tangled issue of tenure -- The athletics incubus -- Student bodies -- Visiting the future in Florida -- The college crucible: add students and stir -- Schools we like: our top ten list
- Control code
- 2010007219
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 271 p.
- Isbn
- 9780805087345
- Lccn
- 2010007219
- Label
- Higher education? : how colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids-- and what we can do about it, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-254) and index
- Contents
- World of the professoriate -- Administrative overload -- Contingent education -- The golden dozen -- Teaching: good, great, abysmal -- The triumph of training -- Why college costs so much -- Fireproof: the tangled issue of tenure -- The athletics incubus -- Student bodies -- Visiting the future in Florida -- The college crucible: add students and stir -- Schools we like: our top ten list
- Control code
- 2010007219
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 271 p.
- Isbn
- 9780805087345
- Lccn
- 2010007219
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