Jackson Toby

The Lowering of Higher Education in America (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume documents just how far college admission standards have fallen and measures the cost of remedial programs designed to get underprepared high school students to the level they should have been at in the first place.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351479882
• Artikelnr.: 49043765

Autorenporträt

Jackson Toby taught sociology and criminology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, for fifty years.

Inhaltsangabe

1: How Colleges Undermine High School Education
2: Maximizing Access to College Maximizes the Enrollment of Underprepared Students
3: How Grade Inflation Undermines Academic Achievement
4: Goofing Off at College
5: Is College Graduation Enough for a Good Job, or Do College Graduates Have to Know Something?
6: The Perils of the Financial Aid Labyrinth
7: How a Change in Public Policy can Improve American College Education
Afterword