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Degrees of Inequality - How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream (Hardcover)
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Degrees of Inequality - How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream (Hardcover)
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America's higher education system is failing its students. In the
space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated
society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in
college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste
system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from
different socio-economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal
than when they first enrolled. Until the 1970s, the United States
had a proud history of promoting higher education for its citizens.
The Morrill Act, the G.I. Bill and Pell Grants enabled Americans
from across the income spectrum to attend college and the nation
led the world in the percentage of young adults with baccalaureate
degrees. Yet since 1980, progress has stalled. Young adults from
low to middle income families are not much more likely to graduate
from college than four decades ago. When less advantaged students
do attend, they are largely sequestered into inferior and often
profit-driven institutions, from which many emerge without
degrees,and shouldering crushing levels of debt. In Degrees of
Inequality , acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains
why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American
Dream is increasingly out of reach for so many. In her eye-opening
account, she illuminates how political partisanship has
overshadowed America's commitment to equal access to higher
education. As politicians capitulate to corporate interests, owners
of for-profit colleges benefit, but for far too many students,
higher education leaves them with little besides crippling student
loan debt. Meanwhile, the nation's public universities have shifted
the burden of rising costs onto students. In an era when a college
degree is more linked than ever before to individual,and
societal,well-being, these pressures conspire to make it
increasingly difficult for students to stay in school long enough
to graduate. By abandoning their commitment to students,
politicians are imperiling our highest ideals as a nation. Degrees
of Inequality offers an impassioned call to reform a higher
education system that has come to exacerbate, rather than mitigate,
socioeconomic inequality in America.
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