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 0 billion-per-year business, has lost sight of its primary mission: the education of young adult
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Students Helping Students: A Guide for Peer Educators on College Campuses (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) – Book Review
This second edition offers a practical training guide for college students who serve as leaders, tutors, counselors, or advisors for their peers. This thoroughly revised and updated volume contains a fundamental discussion on student growth and development and provides learning objectives and self-discovery exercises to help student leaders with tasks such as tutoring, student orientation, residence hall advising, crisis intervention, coaching, and more. Students Helping Students includes: » Read more: Students Helping Students: A Guide for Peer Educators on College Campuses (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) – Book Review
Governing Children, Families and Education: Restructuring the Welfare State
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A new collection of essays that address the international changes in welfare policy, this book incorporates examinations of changing patterns of regulation and reform. An international group of authors explore changes in the political, economic, and cultural systems of knowledge that relate to changing discourses of reform and governing in relation to the child, family, and education. The contributors examine the role of international donors and their emphasis on ef… More >>