“The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students.”
—The New York Times Book Review
As featured on The Daily Show, NPR’s Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the “powerful, chilling tale” (Carol Anderson, author of White Rage) of higher education becoming an engine of social inequality
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
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Author(s)Cottom, Tressie McMillan
PublisherThe New Press
ISBN / ASIN162097438X
ISBN-139781620974384
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank183,013
CategoryPaperback
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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