The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux

by Cathy N. Davidson

Book Overview

A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past -- and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant change Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925. It was in those decades that the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, all in an attempt to prepare young people for a world transformed by the telegraph and the Model T. As Cathy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465079725
• ISBN13: 9780465079728
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"