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The End of Tenure?

New Yokr Times Sunday Book Review - Essay

September 5, 2010

The debate over American higher education has been reignited recently, thanks to two feisty new books. Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids - And What We Can Do About It, by Andrew Hacker, a professor emeritus of political science at Queens College, and Claudia C. Dreifus, a journalist, is full of sarcastic asides, but its arguments have been praised in The Wall Street Journal and given a respectful airing on The Atlantic's Web site. They are also echoed in Mark C. Taylor's Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities, which is more measured in tone but no less devastating in its assessment of our unsustainable "education bubble."

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