The Five-Year Party

Author: Craig Brandon
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B003ZSHUCA

The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It

Colleges look much the same as they did five or ten years ago, but a lot has changed behind the scenes. Download The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. While some mixture of study and play has always been part of college life, an increasing number of schools have completely abandoned the idea that students need to learn or demonstrate that they've learned. Financial pressures have made college administrations increasingly reluctant to flunk anyone out, regardless of performance, although the average length of time to get a degree is now five years, and for many students it's six or more. Student evaluations of professorsAoften linked to promotion and tenure decisionsAhave made professors realize that applying tough standards, or any standards, only hurts their own career progress. For Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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