| #647443 in Books | 2010-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.39 x.51 x5.39l,.61 | File type: PDF | 196 pages | Ships from Vermont||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Exposes the Trillion Dollar Education Scam|By Free Thinker|I knew something was wrong back in the 1980s, when I was in college. A friend and I were discussing how the professors never taught us anything that wasn't in the textbooks. "What are we paying five grand a year for?" he asked. "I could learn as much reading on my own!"
He was right. I've long since reali|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Kamenetz, author of the alarming personal finance expose Generation Debt, drops another bombshell on the emerging cohort of young Americans, this time regarding higher education. While she mounts a standard (though illuminating)
The price of college tuition has increased more than any other major good or service for the last twenty years. Nine out of ten American high school seniors aspire to go to college, yet the United States has fallen from world leader to only the tenth most educated nation. Almost half of college students don't graduate; those who do have unprecedented levels of federal and private student loan debt, which constitutes a credit bubble similar to the mortgage crisis.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education | Anya Kamenetz. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
