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Lowering Higher Education
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Author : James Cote
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2011-01-15
Lowering Higher Education written by James Cote and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-15 with Education categories.
What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the corporatization of universities to a range of contentious issues within higher education, from lowered standards and inflated grades to the overall decline of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences instruction. Lowering Higher Education points to a fundamental disconnect between policymakers, who may rarely set foot in contemporary classrooms, and the teachers who must implement their educational policies—which the authors argue are poorly informed—on a daily basis. Côté and Allahar expose stakeholder misconceptions surrounding the current culture of academic disengagement and supposed power of new technologies to motivate students. While outlining what makes the status quo dysfunctional, Lowering Higher Education also offers recommendations that have the potential to reinvigorate liberal education.
Lowering Higher Education
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Author : James E. Côté
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Lowering Higher Education written by James E. Côté and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with EDUCATION categories.
What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the corporatization of universities to a range of contentious issues within higher education, from lowered standards and inflated grades to the overall decline of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences instruction. Lowering Higher Education points to a fundamental disconnect between policymakers, who may rarely set foot in contemporary classrooms, and the teachers who must implement their educational policies--which the authors argue are poorly informed--on a daily basis. Côté and Allahar expose stakeholder misconceptions surrounding the current culture of academic disengagement and supposed power of new technologies to motivate students. While outlining what makes the status quo dysfunctional, Lowering Higher Education also offers recommendations that have the potential to reinvigorate liberal education.
The Lowering Of Higher Education In America
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Author : Jackson Toby
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Lowering Of Higher Education In America written by Jackson Toby and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Education categories.
Few in the United States will dispute the assumption that every high school graduate should be entitled to go to college regardless of financial need. But should everyone be able to go regardless of academic preparedness? Jackson Toby explores the idea that federal financial aid programs, all of which peg student aid to need alone and not to academic performance, are dragging down college admissions and academic standards to the point where America's schools, students, and economy will no longer be globally competitive. After a half-century of teaching, distinguished educator Jackson Toby concludes that our current system all too often gives both high school and college students the impression that college is an entitlement and not a challenge. The Lowering of Higher Education: Why Student Loans Should Be Based on Credit Worthiness is Toby's unflinching look at this broken system and the ways it can be fixed. This volume documents just how far college admission standards have fallen and measures the cost of remedial programs designed to get underprepared high school students to the level they should have been at in the first place. Toby is both pointed and frank in his discussion on the issue of grade inflation, which rewards laziness while demoralizing hard-working students. To reverse the national decline of academic standards in American colleges, Toby proposes a radical solution: Let federal student aid be tied to academic performance as well as financial need, incentivizing students to develop serious attitudes and study habits in high school and keep them up in college.
Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free
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Author : Robert Samuels
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-15
Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free written by Robert Samuels and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with Education categories.
Universities tend to be judged by the test scores of their incoming students and not on what students actually learn once they attend these institutions. While shared tests and surveys have been developed, most schools refuse to publish the results. Instead, they allow such publications as U.S. News & World Report to define educational quality. In order to raise their status in these rankings, institutions pour money into new facilities and extracurricular activities while underfunding their educational programs. In Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free, Robert Samuels argues that many institutions of higher education squander funds and mislead the public about such things as average class size, faculty-to-student ratios, number of faculty with PhDs, and other indicators of educational quality. Parents and students seem to have little knowledge of how colleges and universities have been restructured over the past thirty years. Samuels shows how research universities have begun to function as giant investment banks or hedge funds that spend money on athletics and administration while increasing tuition costs and actually lowering the quality of undergraduate education. In order to fight higher costs and lower quality, Samuels suggests, universities must reallocate these misused funds and concentrate on their core mission of instruction and related research. Throughout the book, Samuels argues that the future of our economy and democracy rests on our ability to train students to be thoughtful participants in the production and analysis of knowledge. If leading universities serve only to grant credentials and prestige, our society will suffer irrevocable harm. Presenting the problem of how universities make and spend money, Samuels provides solutions to make these important institutions less expensive and more vital. By using current resources in a more effective manner, we could even, he contends, make all public higher education free.
The Lowering Of Higher Education In America
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Author : Jackson Toby
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2010
The Lowering Of Higher Education In America written by Jackson Toby and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Education categories.
A top educator looks at the causes and national costs of the lowering of college admission and academic standards in the United States, then proposes confronting the problem by tying federal student grants and loans to academic performance as well as to financial need. After a half-century of teaching, distinguished educator Jackson Toby concludes that all too often, our current system gives high school students the impression that college is an entitlement and not a challenge. The Lowering of Higher Education: Why Financial Aid Should be Based on Student Performance is Toby's unflinching look at this broken system and the ways it can be fixed. The Lowering of Higher Education documents just how far college admission standards have fallen, then measures the cost of remedial programs for underprepared high school students just to get them to where they should have been in the first place. Toby also pulls no punches on the issue of grade inflation, which rewards laziness while demoralizing hard-working students. In conclusion, Toby proposes an innovative solution: base financial aid solely on academic performance, creating a compelling incentive for students to develop serious attitudes and study approaches in high school.
Lowering Higher Education
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Author : James E. Côté
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Lowering Higher Education written by James E. Côté and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Education categories.
A history of a mission adrift : the idea of the university subverted -- Stakeholder relations : the educational forum -- Standards : schools without scholarship? -- Universities : crisis, what crisis? -- Students : is disengagement inevitable? -- Technologies : will they save the day? -- Recommendations and conclusions : our stewardship of the system.
Routledge Handbook Of The Sociology Of Higher Education
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Author : James E. Côté
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-03
Routledge Handbook Of The Sociology Of Higher Education written by James E. Côté and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-03 with Social Science categories.
This is the first handbook to cover the sociological approaches to higher education. It is timely because of global expansions of mass higher educational systems, especially as these systems come under scrutiny by a variety of stakeholders. Questions are being raised about the value of traditional pedagogies along with calls for efficiency, accountability and cost-reduction, but above all job training. Within this neoliberal context, each chapter examines different sociological aspects of, and debates about, educational institutions as status-conferring organizations, with myriad positional characteristics, experiences, and outcomes. Many current debates concern the legitimacy of the statuses conferred, including the continuing debate regarding the role of universities in legitimating social class reproduction as well as more recent concerns about standards in mass systems. This handbook puts these issues and debates in focus in ways that will be of interest to a variety of stakeholders, within academia as well as in policy circles.
Equity And Excellence In Higher Education
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Author : Alan R. Sadovnik
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1994
Equity And Excellence In Higher Education written by Alan R. Sadovnik and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Education categories.
Compensatory higher education programs developed as part of the liberal educational reforms of the 1960s and 1970s. Their goal was to compensate for unequal pre-college education and provide equal opportunities for economically and educationally disadvantaged students. This book provides a sociological and historical analysis of the rise and fall of one educational opportunity program that began as an off-campus branch of a state college in the late 1960s, moved to the main campus in the late 1970s, and was eliminated in 1983. The analysis relates to the larger policy questions in higher education, with special reference to issues of equity and excellence.
Lower Ed
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Author : Tressie McMillan Cottom
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2018-08-07
Lower Ed written by Tressie McMillan Cottom and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-07 with Education categories.
"The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students." —The New York Times Book Review As featured on The Daily Show, NPR's Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the "powerful, chilling tale" (Carol Anderson, author of White Rage) of higher education becoming an engine of social inequality “p>Lower Ed is quickly becoming the definitive book on the fastest-growing sector of higher education at the turn of the twenty-first century: for-profit colleges. With sharp insight and deliberate acumen, Tressie McMillan Cottom—a sociologist who was once a recruiter at two for-profit colleges—expertly parses the fraught dynamics of this big-money industry. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with students, employees, executives, and activists, Lower Ed details the benefits, pitfalls, and real costs of the expansion of for-profit colleges. Now with a new foreword by Stephanie Kelton, economic advisor to Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign, this smart and essential book cuts to the very core of our nation's broken social contracts and the challenges we face in our divided, unequal society.
Pork Barrel Education
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Author : Joel Warren Lidz
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2011-05-04
Pork Barrel Education written by Joel Warren Lidz and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-04 with Education, Higher categories.
Most persons polled believe that higher education is doing a good job, but numerous studies show that American students lag behind foreigners. Dr. Lidz examines higher education's low standards in light of the following: 1) the disparaging of so-called humanistic education, which seeks to improve those abilities which make humans unique in the animal kingdom-self-reflection and rationality. 2) the application to colleges of a business model which focuses exclusively on the enrollment and retention of students. 3) political correctness in the form of a affirmative action, sensitivity training and speech codes which impose on schools a vision of what they should be. 4) the movement of thought known as postmodernism. "This work is a voice for excellence in education. Political correctness and multiculturalism are the inverse of excellence and have failed completely as proper standards of human education. These false standards of teaching and learning coupled with a business model of the administration of colleges and universities have brought American education to a point of ineptitude. Postmodernism, predicated on the overturning of objectivity and human knowledge, has provided theoretical justification for such developments." - Donald Philip Verene, Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy, Emory University