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This means that where college graduates could once expect to live about two years longer than non-college graduates, they’re now unlikely to face their mortality for an additional eight years.
The book was also nominated for a number of national awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, PEN America's Jean Stein Book Award, and two awards from the National Book Critics Circle Award. Educated spent more than two years in hardcover on the New York Times bestseller list [18] and is being translated into 45 languages. [19]
After his first two semesters of college, my son is on academic suspension. Right now, he's working in a bakery while he decides what he want to do next. We're not sure if he'll return to school ...
It also places both branches of St. John's College under one listing. In addition, it restored a few schools that were included in earlier editions of the book: The Evergreen State College, Hampshire College, and Antioch College, which were all included in the 1996, 2000, and 2006 editions, and Bard College, which was in the 1996 edition.
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students is a 1987 book by the philosopher Allan Bloom, in which the author criticizes the openness of relativism, in academia and society in general, as leading paradoxically to the great closing referenced in the book's title.
I recently got my daughter settled in college, and I couldn’t help but think back to my own college days because one particular assignment set me on the path that has defined my life. I was ...
Why Liberalism Failed is a critique of political, social, and economic liberalism as practiced by both American Democrats and Republicans.According to Deneen, "we should rightly wonder whether America is not in the early days of its eternal life but rather approaching the end of the natural cycle of corruption and decay that limits the lifespan of all human creations."
In this book, Hofstadter set out to trace the social movements that altered the role of intellect in American society. [3] In so doing, he explored questions regarding the purpose of education and whether the democratization of education altered that purpose and reshaped its form.