Andrew Hacker è un intellettuale pubblico il cui lavoro esamina criticamente questioni politiche e sociali. È noto per la sua acuta analisi della società americana contemporanea e delle sue istituzioni. Hacker contribuisce frequentemente con saggi che stimolano la riflessione a importanti riviste letterarie, offrendo una prospettiva acuta sugli affari correnti. La sua ricerca spesso approfondisce le complessità dell'istruzione superiore e del suo ruolo nella società.
Political scientist Andrew Hacker's white paper on the racial divide in America compares and contrasts black and white life along issues of income and employment, education, politics, and crime. Hacker presents research into elusive aspects such as attitudes toward race, everyday perceptions of each other, and lingering social barriers based on fear, anger, and guilt. His findings are based on interviews and research into the everyday experiences of average Americans from both racial groups
How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It
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11 ore di lettura
What's gone wrong at our colleges and universities―and how to get American higher education back on track A quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier universities. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it? Renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420 billion-per-year business, has lost sight of its primary the education of young adults. Going behind the myths and mantras, they probe the true performance of the Ivy League, the baleful influence of tenure, an unhealthy reliance on part-time teachers, and the supersized bureaucracies which now have a life of their own. As Hacker and Dreifus call for a thorough overhaul of a self-indulgent system, they take readers on a road trip from Princeton to Evergreen State to Florida Gulf Coast University, revealing 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.
