Degrees of inequality : how the politics of higher education sabotaged the American dream / Suzanne Mettler.
Mettler, Suzanne.
2014
LC173 .M488 2014eb
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Title Degrees of inequality : how the politics of higher education sabotaged the American dream / Suzanne Mettler.
Author Mettler, Suzanne.
ISBN 9780465072002 (electronic book)
9780465044962
Published New York : Basic Books, 2014.
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 261 pages)
Call Number LC173 .M488 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.73
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 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."--Publisher information.
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Creating degrees of inequality
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"Unscrupulous profiteers": the struggle to reform the for-profit colleges
From pioneer to slacker: the rise and decline of American public higher education
Opportune moments: reform on the agenda
How money talks: Political influence in the struggle to regulate the for-profits
Restoring the public purposes of higher education.

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