Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New

Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy

â€œThe best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students.â€
â€”The New York Times Book Review

As featured on The Daily Show, NPRâ€™s Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the â€œpowerful, chilling taleâ€ (Carol Anderson, author of White Rage) of higher education becoming an engine of social inequality <
Lower Ed is quickly becoming the definitive book on the fastest-growing sector of higher education at the turn of the twenty-first century: for-profit colleges. With sharp insight and deliberate acumen, Tressie McMillan Cottomâ€”a sociologist who was once a recruiter at two for-profit collegesâ€”expertly parses the fraught dynamics of this big-money industry.

Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with students, employees, executives, and activists, Lower Ed details the benefits, pitfalls, and real costs of the expansion of for-profit colleges. Now with a new foreword by Stephanie Kelton, economic advisor to Bernie Sandersâ€™s presidential campaign, this smart and essential book cuts to the very core of our nationâ€™s broken social contracts and the challenges we face in our divided, unequal society.
Country USA
Manufacturer The New Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-08-07
Format Kindle eBook

Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy