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Chargement... The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Uspar Paul Tough
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Paul Tough uses personal stories to illustrate the challenges facing many students before, during, and after their college experience. I found the data surrounding standardized tests extremely interesting because of the large population of students with excellent high school grades that do poorly on the SAT or ACT. This group is disproportionately women, students of color, from poorer backgrounds. This has many implications for colleges insisting that high school GPA is not a good indicator of success. I will keep this book in the back of my mind throughout my career as a professor. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:First published as The Years That Matter Most From best-selling author Paul Tough, an indelible and explosive book on the glaring injustices of higher education, including unfair admissions tests, entrenched racial barriers, and crushing student debt. Now updated and expanded for the pandemic era. When higher education works the way it's supposed to, there is no better tool for social mobilityâ??for lifting young people out of challenging circumstances and into the middle class and beyond. In reality, though, American colleges and universities have become the ultimate tool of social immobilityâ??a system that secures a comfortable future for the children of the wealthy while throwing roadblocks in the way of students from struggling families. Combining vivid and powerful personal stories with deep, authoritative reporting, Paul Tough explains how we got into this mess and explores the innovative reforms that might get us out. Tough examines the systemic racism that pervades American higher education, shows exactly how the SATs give an unfair advantage to wealthy students, and guides readers from Ivy League seminar rooms to the welding shop at a rural community college. At every stop, he introduces us to young Americans yearning for a better lifeâ??and praying that a college education might help them get there. With a new preface and afterword by the author exposing how the coronavirus pandemic has shaken the higher education system anew.â?? Read by the Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I found this book fascinating. Paul Tough's signature interlinking of academic study findings with journalism's personal stories really works for me. A lot of what he calls out as indisputable findings here are results that I had understood to still be in question (like that top tier institutions really do do much better for their graduates than their high-mid-tier competitors -- take that, Jay Mathews! -- and that the kids who are advantaged by standardized tests tend to be whiter, richer, more male, and less likely to do well in college than the equal sized group of kids who are disadvantaged by their test scores). Lots of chew on here; I'll be recommending it to all my educator friends and anyone else interested in social mobility and in education. ( )