Five-Year Party [electronic resource] : How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It.

• Tác giả: Craig Brandon
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1935618249
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 371.192 Parent-school relations
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : BenBella, 2010.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Xã hội, kinh tế, luật
• ID: 66449
• Chủ đề: 1. Academic achievement -- United State; 2. College environment -- United State; 3. College students -- United States -- Social condition; 4. Educatio; 5. Education, Higher -- United States -- Evaluatio

Tóm tắt

Colleges look much the same as they did five or ten years ago, but a lot has changed behind the scenes. 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 professors—often linked to p