Higher Education and the American Dream: Success and its Discontents

by Marvin Lazerson

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Has higher education become too successful? Are the expectations for higher education too grandiose? Lazerson discusses both the problems and the accomplishment of American universities with equal care. The book delivers a penetrating, nuanced account of American universities in the twenty-first century. Tackles topics that range from the rise of the managerial class to the failed attempts to reform practice in the classroom.
  • ISBN10 9639776793
  • ISBN13 9789639776791
  • Publish Date 10 August 2007
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country HU
  • Imprint Central European University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 231
  • Language English