The Quiet Crisis: How Higher Education Is Failing America

by Peter P. Smith

The Quiet Crisis argues that we are failing to educate large numbers of students in higher education successfully because we are employing an out-of-date educational model that ignores the knowledge and resources available that would make these students successful. This model--the author argues--ignores the newest scientific findings about how we learn; it still favors those in the upper economic strata and works against minorities, despite efforts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882982703
• ISBN13: 9781882982707
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"