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Laddar... Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dreamav Sara Goldrick-Rab
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. If you are at all interested in the process of financial aid in higher education, this is a useful book. I work with a lot of college students who depend on financial aid to make higher education and its resulting benefits possible. Goldrick-Rab does a good job explaining why our current system isn't working for many students, why this is so, and she presents some alternative options. I do think it could benefit from additional research into the realities of developmental first year students and the financial realities faced by rural students, but that reflects more of my own day to day reality. I appreciate the author's detailed attention to important financial issues faced by our current students. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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One of the most sustained and vigorous public debates today is about the value and, crucially, the price of college. But an unspoken, outdated assumption underlies all sides of this debate: if a young person works hard enough, they'll be able to get a college degree and be on the path to a good life. That's simply not true anymore, says Sara Goldrick-Rab. Quite simply, college is far too expensive for many people today, and the confusing mix of federal, state, institutional, and private financial aid leaves countless students without the resources they need to pay for it. Drawing on a study of 3,000 young adults who entered public colleges and universities in Wisconsin in 2008 with the support of federal aid and Pell Grants, Goldrick-Rab reveals the devastating effect of these shortfalls. She believes America can fix this problem. In the final section of the book, Goldrick-Rab offers a range of possible solutions. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Far too many American students are homeless, far too many are going to class hungry, far too many are failing classes because they're so exhausted from working long hours trying to pay for those classes in the first place. For all the claims of American exceptionalism, the USA lags far behind many other countries in college graduation rates (and indeed in social mobility). There's no one solution to all of these problems, but Goldrick Rab rightly urges that colleges and the federal and state government at least start to recognise that they exist. ( )