Hacker, Andrew

"[Andrew Hacker] worries that a frenzied emphasis on STEM is diverting attention from other pursuits and subverting the spirit of the country"--Jacket flap.

Explores the reasons behind racial disparities in America and how race influences attitudes and behaviors and what role it will play in social conditions in the future.

Calling for a thorough overhaul of a self-indulgent system, the authors make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420 billion-per-year business, has lost sight of its primary mission: the education of young adults. Taking readers on a road trip from Princeton to Evergreen State to Florida Gulf Coast University, Hacker and Dreifus reveal those faculties and institutions that are getting it right and proving that teaching and learning can be achieved--and at a much more reasonable price.

Presents arguments for what the authors believe is wrong with the modern higher education system, which schools are doing better than other schools, and what can be done to fix the schools.