The Great Rip-Off in American Education
Subtitle: Undergrads Underserved
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781591020318
Subjects: Higher & further education; Aims And Objectives Of Higher Education; Undergraduate Departments; Education; Education / Teaching; USA; Educational Policy & Reform; Higher; Essays; Aims and objectives; Education, Higher; Educational accountability; United States
First sentence: In the early 1980s, America's schools-kindergarten through high school-were in a terrible state, as revealed in books such as A Nation at Risk and Why Johnny Can't Read.
Description: Annotation. This hard-hitting critique of the poor quality of undergraduate education in America will be a wake-up call to university administrators, faculty, parents, and prospective college students. Annotation. This hard-hitting critique of the poor quality of undergraduate education will interest university administrators, faculty, parents, and college students.