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

by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus

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What's gone wrong at our colleges and universities--and how to get American higher education back on track A 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0805087346

ISBN13:9780805087345

Release Date:August 2010

Publisher:Times Books

Length:271 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"

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College & University Education Education & Reference Education Theory Philosophy & Social Aspects Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences

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