Charles J. Sykes
Autor(a) de A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character
About the Author
Obras por Charles J. Sykes
Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, or Add (1995) 165 exemplares
50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education (2007) 56 exemplares
The End of Privacy: The Attack on Personal Rights at Home, at Work, On-Line, and in Court (1999) 36 exemplares
Okulda Öğretilmeyen 50 Kural 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1954-11-11
- Sexo
- male
- Relações
- Sykes, Jay G. (father)
Membros
Críticas
The Hollow Men: Politics and Corruption In Higher… por Charles J. Sykes
12/6/22
A good insider account of the transformation of the Republican Party in recent years.
Fail U is a well researched, easy to read piece that made me as a community college professor, taxpayer, and citizen angry. I knew higher ed. was in a mess, but I hadn't realized the extent of it. I recommend this book especially to those who are even mildly concerned about the direction our educational system is taking.
Fail U. - The False Promise of Higher Education was written by Charles J. Sykes and published in 2016. This book, a follow-up to his 1988 book, ProfScam - Professors and the Demise of Higher Education, is a thought provoking survey of the state of higher education in this country.
The author covers: the state of tenure on university campuses, the unwillingness of college professors to teach undergraduate classes, college freshman arriving inadequately prepared, the high rate of debt assumed by students to attend college and its impact on their future, trigger warnings, the issue of sexual consent and rape on campuses, the future of online education and the issuance of college degrees of dubious value.
If you are contemplating attending college and taking on debt to do so, if you are a parent or grandparent who is planning to assume some of the cost of your dependent's education, if you are rich enough to be considering large financial donations to your alma mater, or just a concerned citizen who wonders how the runaway cost of higher education will impact the future of the nation, I recommend this book.… (mais)
The author covers: the state of tenure on university campuses, the unwillingness of college professors to teach undergraduate classes, college freshman arriving inadequately prepared, the high rate of debt assumed by students to attend college and its impact on their future, trigger warnings, the issue of sexual consent and rape on campuses, the future of online education and the issuance of college degrees of dubious value.
If you are contemplating attending college and taking on debt to do so, if you are a parent or grandparent who is planning to assume some of the cost of your dependent's education, if you are rich enough to be considering large financial donations to your alma mater, or just a concerned citizen who wonders how the runaway cost of higher education will impact the future of the nation, I recommend this book.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Membros
- 762
- Popularidade
- #33,391
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 11
- ISBN
- 32
- Marcado como favorito
- 1