The Lowering of Higher Education in America

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

Jackson Toby

ISBN: 0-313-37898-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-37898-0

208 pages, photos

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 11/12/2009

List Price: $34.95 (UK Sterling Price: £24.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Description: 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.

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

LCC Class: 378.73 22


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