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EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General EDUCATION / Higher Education, Higher Economic aspects United States Education, Higher Political aspects United States Education, Higher Social aspects United States Educational change United States POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General Teaching United StatesGoldstein, Dana
Summary: A history of 175 years of teaching in America demonstrates that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal childcare, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around the world at countries like Finland and South Korea, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 GOLMettler, Suzanne.
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014