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Cargando... Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About Itpor Andrew Hacker
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The truth is that this book is short on reasoned analysis and long on animus, directed at elite universities, at administrators, and more than anything else at the “professoriate,” as they call it. Professors are seen on the whole as lazy, self-serving, interested only in sabbaticals, prizing only their own research, and profoundly uninterested in teaching students.
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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Their research into the ways that Academia has protected its own interests, at a terrible cost to students, reminded me starkly of the health care crisis, another system that has run amuck and has become prohibitively expensive for almost all of us. This book drives home the ways that any self-policing, self-governing group of "experts," however much it wants to make good choices, will end up making self-serving choices instead.
I'm a little dismayed at the level of polemics--it seems that no one anywhere is getting a good education--but I really feel the basic arguments are sound and the book is well worth your time to read, especially if you are about to apply to college, or to send your child to one. ( )