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Product Description: How can we “fix” our schools? Improve graduation rates in college? What works?These are questions that make the headlines and vex policy makers, practitioners, and educational researchers. While they strive to improve society, there are frequently gulfs of mutual incomprehension among them...read more

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9781579227500 | Stylus Pub Llc, December 29, 2015, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: How can we “fix” our schools?

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9781579227517 | Stylus Pub Llc, December 17, 2015, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: The United States has long been a model for accessible, affordable education, as exemplified by the country's public universities. And yet less than 60 percent of the students entering American universities today are graduating. Why is this happening, and what can be done? Crossing the Finish Line provides the most detailed exploration ever of college completion at America's public universities...read more

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9780691137483 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 8, 2009, cover price $27.95

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9780691149905 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, February 7, 2011), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The United States has long been a model for accessible, affordable education, as exemplified by the country's public universities.

Miscellaneous:

9781400831463 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 28, 2009, cover price $27.95

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Product Description: About two out of three high-school graduates currently enroll at one of America's 4,000 colleges or universities within a year of graduation. But even though college enrollment has increased over the past few decades, college completion rates have fallen...read more

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9780874478303 | College Board, May 27, 2008, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: About two out of three high-school graduates currently enroll at one of America's 4,000 colleges or universities within a year of graduation.

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Product Description: El texto se puede ver como un desarrollo sistemático y extenso del programa de Amartya Sen formulado en Sobre ética y economía 1989, en el que se sostiene que una disciplina puede beneficiarse de la otra. Los autores conciben la tarea de demostrar claramente que comprender la filosofía moral puede mejorar el análisis económico...read more

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9789681685065 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 21, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: El texto se puede ver como un desarrollo sistemático y extenso del programa de Amartya Sen formulado en Sobre ética y economía 1989, en el que se sostiene que una disciplina puede beneficiarse de la otra.

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Product Description: Light cover & reading wear, book appears unmarked inside, clean/solid book

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9780874477740 | College Board, October 3, 2006, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Light cover & reading wear, book appears unmarked inside, clean/solid book

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Product Description: This 2006 book shows through accessible argument and numerous examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy...read more

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9780521846295 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 20, 2006), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This 2006 book shows through accessible argument and numerous examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy.

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9780521608664 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 20, 2006), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This 2006 book shows through accessible argument and numerous examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy.

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Student aid in higher education has recently become a hot-button issue. Parents trying to pay for their children's education, college administrators competing for students, and even President Bill Clinton, whose recently proposed tax breaks for college would change sharply the federal government's financial commitment to higher education, have staked a claim in its resolution. In The Student Aid Game, Michael McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro explain how both colleges and governments are struggling to cope with a rapidly changing marketplace, and show how sound policies can help preserve the strengths and remedy some emerging weaknesses of American higher education. McPherson and Schapiro offer a detailed look at how undergraduate education is financed in the United States, highlighting differences across sectors and for students of differing family backgrounds. They review the implications of recent financing trends for access to and choice of undergraduate college and gauge the implications of these national trends for the future of college opportunity. The authors examine how student aid fits into college budgets, how aid and pricing decisions are shaped by government higher education policies, and how competition has radically reshaped the way colleges think about the strategic role of student aid. Of particular interest is the issue of merit aid. McPherson and Schapiro consider the attractions and pitfalls of merit aid from the viewpoint of students, institutions, and society. The Student Aid Game concludes with an examination of policy options for both government and individual institutions. McPherson and Schapiro argue that the federal government needs to keep its attention focused on providing access to college for needy students, while colleges themselves need to constrain their search for strategic advantage by sticking to aid and admission policies they are willing to articulate and defend publicly.

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9780691057835 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Student aid in higher education has recently become a hot-button issue.

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9780691005362 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 14, 1998, cover price $46.00

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Product Description: Understanding moral philosophy can help one to do economics better, and philosophers can learn by drawing on economic insights and analytical tools. This book argues that standard views of rationality lead economists to espouse questionable moral principles, and discusses methods of economic evaluation in terms of welfare and other moral criteria...read more

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9780521552028 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $62.99 | About this edition: Understanding moral philosophy can help one to do economics better, and philosophers can learn by drawing on economic insights and analytical tools.

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9780521558501 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $30.99

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Product Description: Examines the successes and problems of U.S. higher education

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9780472104048 | Univ of Michigan Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Examines the successes and problems of U.

Book by Pechman, Joseph A.

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9780801426315, titled "Fulfilling America's Promise: Social Policies for the 1990s" | Cornell Univ Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $39.95

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9780801480591, titled "Fulfilling America's Promise: Social Policies for the 1990s" | Cornell Univ Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Book by Pechman, Joseph A.

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Product Description: As Congress debates the reauthorization of the basic federal student aid legislation, and as governors and state legislators cope with increasingly severe budgetary problems of their own, the issues of preserving college opportunity and sharing the burden of college costs are particularly critical and timely...read more

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9780815756422 | Brookings Inst Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $39.95

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9780815756415 | Brookings Inst Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: As Congress debates the reauthorization of the basic federal student aid legislation, and as governors and state legislators cope with increasingly severe budgetary problems of their own, the issues of preserving college opportunity and sharing the burden of college costs are particularly critical and timely.

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