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Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"First published as The Years That Matter Most From best-selling author Paul Tough, an indelible and explosive book on the glaring injustices of higher education, including unfair admissions tests, entrenched racial barriers, and crushing student debt. Now updated and expanded for the pandemic era"--
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In an era of skyrocketing tuition and mounting concern over whether college is "worth it," the authors assess the state of American higher education. They provide a powerful exposé of unmet obligations and misplaced priorities, and explain in vivid detail why so many leave college with so little to show for it. Mapping different pathways available to students at a flagship Midwestern public university, the authors demonstrate that the most well-resourced...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A book that examines how structural inequalities directly influence undergraduate life. Universities love to talk about diversity. They spend millions of dollars advertising just how diverse they, offering diversity statistics that are personalized with pictures. But Anthony Jack argues that this is a superficial approach. He calls it a "gift shop" approach that displays groups like trinkets and fails to truly serve students from underrepresented...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2011 Pierre Bourdieu Book Award, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association" Thomas J. Espenshade is professor of sociology at Princeton University. Alexandria Walton Radford completed her PhD in sociology at Princeton University and directs the Center for Postsecondary Transformation at American Institutes for Research (AIR).
The truth about America's elite colleges and universities-who gets in, who succeeds,...
Author
Series
Our compelling interests volume 4
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book argues that the current conversation about affirmative action and college admissions omits a key dimension: the conditions of racial inequality that students and their families experience from early childhood through high school, and which continue throughout postsecondary education. The moment of matriculation is part of a much longer process that begins in homes, schools, and communities, which prepares some students well and leaves others...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Articulating a fresh vision for teaching, one that focuses on ensuring justice, believing people, and believing in people, this how-to offers evidence-based insights and draws from the author's own rich experiences as a professor to provide practical tips for reshaping syllabi, assessing student performance, and creating trust and belonging in the classroom"--
"Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count....
11) The five-year party: how colleges have given up on educating your child and what you can do about it
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Learn from The High School Survival Guide and be your most organized, productive, motivated, and confident self as you prepare to become a high school freshman. A step-by-step guide to high school success. We're all told to study hard in high school but we're never taught how. And what about balancing the increasing workload and demands of teenage life? According to Jessica Holman's step-by-step guide, you don't have to sacrifice your life to be...
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