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Mettler, Suzanne.
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Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States.
Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States.
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Educational change -- United States.
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Mettler, Suzanne.
Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States.
Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States.
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Educational change -- United States.
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Degrees of inequality : how the politics of higher education sabotaged the American dream / Suzanne Mettler.
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Mettler, Suzanne.
Basic Books, [2014]
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378
.73
M595d
Subjects
Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States.
Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States.
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Educational change -- United States.
ISBN:
9780465044962 (hc.)
0465044964 (hc.)
Description:
viii, 261 p. ; 25 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-249) and index.
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. She 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.
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