Higher Education? In Higher Education? WPI Senior Fellow Claudia Dreifus and renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker deliver a call to arms and make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420 billion-per-year business, has lost sight of its primary mission: the education of young adults. Going behind the myths and mantras, they trace how a system has simultaneously blown up and broken down, and discuss their controversial proposals for repairing it.

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Higher Education?

FEB 3, 2011-1 MIN
DanThompsonIdeas

Higher Education?

FEB 3, 2011-1 MIN

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<a href="http://www.archive.org/download/HigherEducation_n/cdocumentsandsettingsdthompsondesktopcspan9_23_10.mp3">Higher Education?</a><br /><br />In <em>Higher Education?</em> WPI Senior Fellow Claudia Dreifus and renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker deliver a call to arms and make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420 billion-per-year business, has lost sight of its primary mission: the education of young adults. Going behind the myths and mantras, they trace how a system has simultaneously blown up and broken down, and discuss their controversial proposals for repairing it.