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The Lost Promise
- American Universities in the 1960s
- By: Ellen Schrecker
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia's golden age, when universities - well funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility - embraced an egalitarian mission. Swelling in size, schools attracted new types of students and professors, including radicals who challenged their institutions' calcified traditions. But that halcyon moment soon came to a painful and confusing end, with consequences that still afflict the halls of ivy.
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The Lost Promise
- American Universities in the 1960s
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 15-02-22
- Language: English
- Americas · Education · United States
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When Grit Isn't Enough
- A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College- for-All Promise
- By: Linda F. Nathan
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Examines major myths informing American education and explores how educators can better serve students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don’t disadvantage students on the basis of race or income Each year, as the founding headmaster of the Boston Arts...
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When Grit Isn't Enough
- A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College- for-All Promise
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 17-10-17
- Language: English
- Childhood Education
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Is College Worth It?
- A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education
- By: William J. Bennett, David Wilezol
- Narrated by: Tommy Cresswell
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Is college worth the ever-increasing cost? From the mouths of politicians and parents alike, the notion that "everyone should go to college" is conventional wisdom in America. Yet half of today's college graduates are unemployed or underemployed. They have little to show for their time in school...
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Interesting as an high school educator
- By Richard D. Huett on 15-09-13
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Is College Worth It?
- A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education
- Narrated by: Tommy Cresswell
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 30-04-13
- Language: English
- Childhood Education · Christian Living
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