Higher Education and the American Dream: Success and Its Discontents

by Marvin Lazerson

Marvin Lazerson (professor at the Central European University and the University of Pennsylvania) considers the successes of higher education in the USA and how this has also bred discontent. He traces the development of higher education from the last half of the twentieth century, and considers why the expansion occurred, how it became an industry, and the increasing role of education in job attainment, as well as problems like rising costs, debates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9639776793
• ISBN13: 9789639776791
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"