The Lowering of Higher Education in America: Why Financial Aid Should Be Based on Student Performance - Couverture rigide

Toby, Jackson

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0313378983 ISBN 13 : 9780313378980

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2009

Synopsis

A top educator looks at the causes and national costs of the lowering of college admission and academic standards in the United States, then proposes confronting the problem by tying federal student grants and loans to academic performance as well as to financial need.
After a half-century of teaching, distinguished educator Jackson Toby concludes that all too often, our current system gives high school students the impression that college is an entitlement and not a challenge. The Lowering of Higher Education: Why Financial Aid Should be Based on Student Performance is Toby's unflinching look at this broken system and the ways it can be fixed.

The Lowering of Higher Education documents just how far college admission standards have fallen, then measures the cost of remedial programs for underprepared high school students just to get them to where they should have been in the first place. Toby also pulls no punches on the issue of grade inflation, which rewards laziness while demoralizing hard-working students. In conclusion, Toby proposes an innovative solution: base financial aid solely on academic performance, creating a compelling incentive for students to develop serious attitudes and study approaches in high school.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jackson Toby taught sociology and criminology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, for fifty years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0313378983
• ISBN 13: 9780313378980
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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