Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

by Suzanne Mettler

Book Overview

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 surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio-economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than when they first enrolled. Until the 1970s, the United...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465044964
• ISBN13: 9780465044962
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary