What’s gone wrong at our colleges and universities—and how to get American higher education back on track A quarter of a million dollars. It’s the going tab for four years at most top-tier universities. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it? Renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420 billion-per-year business, has lost sight of its primary … More >>
Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It
Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership
These essays describe the elements of successful group leadership. They show how to negotiate a basis for leadership, orchestrate questioning, listening and responding, encourage independent thinking, and guide participants towards useful interactive roles…. More >>
Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender
Focusing on what multicultural education actually looks like in the classroom, “Making Choices for Multicultural Education, Sixth Edition” encourages all to examine the latest theoretical perspectives on multicultural education, as well as personal beliefs about classroom diversity. The authors show how schools reflect broad patterns of institutional discrimination, and then offer five different approaches to addressing such problems in the classroom…. More >>
