Our Underachieving Colleges
Subtitle: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 27, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780691125961
Subjects: Higher & further education; Philosophy of education; Higher; Education / Teaching; Education; Educational Policy & Reform; United States; Economics; Education / Higher; Political Science and International Relations; Sociology; Academic achievement; Aims and objectives; Education, Higher
First sentence: Undergraduate education today bears no resemblance to the instruction masters and tutors gave to the trickle of adolescents entering one of the nine colleges that existed prior to the American Revolution.