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Why Johnny’s College Isn’t What It Used to Be

New Yokr Times - Book Review

August 19, 2010

In Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids - and What We Can Do About It, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus have written a lucid, passionate and wide-ranging book on the state of American higher education and what they perceive as its increasing betrayal of its primary mission - for them, the teaching of undergraduates. That both are academics provides them with memorable, often acerbic anecdotes that neatly offset their citations of statistics and (it must be said) their sometimes rather sweeping generalizations.

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