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Degrees of inequality : how the politics of higher education sabotaged the American dream
- Title
- Degrees of inequality : how the politics of higher education sabotaged the American dream / Suzanne Mettler.
- Author
- Mettler, Suzanne.
- Publication
- New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-7458 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- viii, 261 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only to those in the top income brackets. In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is increasingly out of reach for so many. In her eye-opening account, Mettler illuminates how political partisanship has overshadowed America's commitment to equal access to higher education. As politicians capitulate to corporate interests, owners of for-profit colleges benefit, but many of their students gain little aside from massive student loan debt. Meanwhile the nation's public universities have shifted the burden of rising costs onto students, and skyrocketing tuition fees make it increasingly difficult for students to finish their degrees. A comprehensive examination of how politicians have failed our students and our highest ideals as a nation, Degrees of Inequality is clarion call for education reform. "--
- Subject
- Education, Higher > Political aspects > United States
- Education, Higher > Social aspects > United States
- Education, Higher > Economic aspects > United States
- Educational change > United States
- EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
- EDUCATION / Higher
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-7458
- ISBN
- 9780465044962
- 0465044964
- LCCN
- 2013043678
- OCLC
- 2013043678
- Author
- Mettler, Suzanne.
- Title
- Degrees of inequality : how the politics of higher education sabotaged the American dream / Suzanne Mettler.
- Publisher
- New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-7458