Graduation season is upon us!
And here’s the (really) sad truth about higher education.
Despite American higher education’s immense (and ever-growing) price tag, students are learning less than ever before.
As America's youth are marching bravely into the workforce, armed with hard-earned credentials and big dreams for the future…
It's important to remember that learning doesn’t stop after school ends.
In fact, for many people, learning doesn’t even start when school begins.
Why? Because American higher education is in crisis.
And now that the school year is done, it’s time to face the facts about education.
Our book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America offers powerful prescriptions to cure the underlying problems in higher education.
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“This is one of the best books written about higher education in the last quarter-century. The inherited strengths of our system weighed against its flaws, temptations, and corruptions are laid forth with precision by a scholar who knows exactly what’s what.”
—Peter W. Wood, President, National Association of Scholars; former Provost, The King’s College, New York
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It's no secret that what’s happening to our academic institutions is an intellectual travesty…
…and the fact that higher education’s price tag goes up at the same rate that quality goes down is nothing short of an outrage.
That’s why the Independent Institute’s Center on Educational Excellence has compiled three essential annotated bibliographies on K-12 policy analysis and reform, K-12 subject matter and curriculum, and on higher education.
Our aim is to help families and students prepare themselves for the shortcomings in the primary and higher education systems…and equip them for a lifetime of learning that will last long after graduation.
“Much time and effort are spent on our own—or our children’s—education, yet too little time educating ourselves about education, its history, and its varieties. This neglect can impair education reform by limiting the options under discussion and preventing us from addressing the most important question of all: How might we overhaul the school system—including the underlying governing framework of education—so that schools better serve students’ and families’ diverse needs?”
–Senior Fellow Dr. Williamson M. Evers, author of both bibliographies
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