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reseñas educativas (Spanish) resenhas educativas (Portuguese) Doom, Gloom, and the Misunderstanding of Higher commandment: An Essay revue John Rothfork Northern Arizona University Hersh, Richard H. & Merrow, John. (2005). Declining By Degrees: Higher Education at Risk. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xi + 244 $24.95 (hardback) ISBN 1403969213 $14.95 (paperback) ISBN 1403973164 $29.98 (DVD) November 30, 2005 This earmark is a young man piece to a phosphate buffer solution two hour station of the same name, which is available on DVD and VHS. PBS similarly offers Web site support for both works at . You can jerk off a sense of the t unity of the book by skimming through reader reviews at the PBS site above. They all sing the same hymn to pick apart the state of higher culture in America, finding that the shifting lies with administrators, coaches, faculty, students, and even the parents of the students. Since the underlying politics of the anthology are liberal sooner than conservative, there is not much hand-wringing over the loss of American values in the vein of what Slate magazine calls our bookmaker of virtues, Bill Bennett . Instead, the authors find fault with regulation, or the lack of it, and last with commercial, Utilitarian values that threaten to define higher education as just another consumer service.

Among the fifteen contributors to the anthology, not one has a good word to say about American higher education, although they do hope that the crown jewel of our remains of education will be restored to its former glory (p. 9). It is essential to note that not one of Rothfork: Doom, Gloom, and the Misunderstanding of Higher Education 2 the authors has a background in science, engineering, or technology. The book is a jeremiad in which each author competes with the others to offer sermons of gloom and doom. I judge Bill Moyers to have written the introduction, but the editors got Tom Wolfe to touch a few paragraphs in a foreword to strike up that Harvard seniors dress... Is this the right essay for you? Watch the video under to read 2 more pages now. or If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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