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The Lowering of Higher Education in America: Why Financial Aid Should Be Based on Student Performance

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The Lowering of Higher Education in America: Why Financial Aid Should Be Based on Student Performance

Jackson Toby, "The Lowering of Higher Education in America: Why Financial Aid Should Be Based on Student Performance"
English | ISBN: 0313378983 | 2009 | 224 pages | PDF | 1125 KB

A top educator looks at the causes and national costs of the lowering of college admission and academic standards in the United States, then proposes confronting the problem by tying federal student grants and loans to academic performance as well as to financial need.

After a half-century of teaching, distinguished educator Jackson Toby concludes that all too often, our current system gives high school students the impression that college is an entitlement and not a challenge. The Lowering of Higher Education: Why Financial Aid Should be Based on Student Performance is Toby's unflinching look at this broken system and the ways it can be fixed.

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