Higher education?
Subtitle: how colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids, and what we can do about it
By: Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus.
Contributors: Dreifus, Claudia.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Times Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780805087345
Subjects: Education, Higher -- United States; College costs -- United States; College teachers -- United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: World of the professoriate; title: Administrative overload; title: Contingent education; title: The golden dozen; title: Teaching: good, great, abysmal; title: The decline of the liberal arts, the triumph of training; title: Why college costs so much; title: Fireproof: the tangled issue of tenure; title: The athletics incubus; title: Student bodies; title: Visiting the future in Florida; title: The college crucible: add students and stir; title: Schools we like: our top ten list.