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Henry Holt and Co.
August 2010
On Sale: August 3, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 0805087346
EAN: 9780805087345
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
What's gone wrong at our colleges and universities—and how
to get American higher education back on track A quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four
years at most top-tier universities. Why does it cost so
much and is it worth it? Renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer
Claudia Dreifus 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. Going behind the myths and mantras, they probe
the true performance of the Ivy League, the baleful
influence of tenure, an unhealthy reliance on part-time
teachers, and the supersized bureaucracies which now have a
life of their own. As Hacker and Dreifus call for a thorough overhaul of a
self-indulgent system, they take readers on a road trip from
Princeton to Evergreen State to Florida Gulf Coast
University, revealing 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.
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