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Product Description: Performance funding ties state support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance on specific outcomes, including retention, number of credits accrued, graduation, and job placement. The theory is that introducing market-like forces will prod institutions to become more efficient and effective...read more
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9781421416908 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 3, 2015, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Performance funding ties state support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance on specific outcomes, including retention, number of credits accrued, graduation, and job placement.
9780397322114, titled "The Dream Factory" | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, February 1, 1988, cover price $12.95 | also contains The Dream Factory | About this edition: A little sheep who doesn't like to go to bed at night changes her mind after a visit to the Dream Factory.
Product Description: How many times have you heard a potential college bound student say, Sure, I want to go to college, but right now, I have to make a living for myself and help my family? Or, I want to go to college, but I don t know what I want to study...read more
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9781680530032, titled "Empowerful Informatics: Optimizing Higher Learning and Maximizing Investment in Todayâs Economy" | Academica Pr Llc, March 17, 2015, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: How many times have you heard a potential college bound student say, Sure, I want to go to college, but right now, I have to make a living for myself and help my family?
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9781633211308 | Nova Science Pub Inc, July 25, 2014, cover price $62.00
Product Description: Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation continue to grow, underlining a deep contradiction within American higher education. In other words, despite the well-intended, now mature process of democratization, the postsecondary system is still charged with high levels of inequality...read more
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9780739169322, titled "Access to Inequality: Reconsidering Class, Knowledge, and Capital in Higher Education" | 1 edition (Lexington Books, September 13, 2012), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation continue to grow, underlining a deep contradiction within American higher education.
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9780739197721, titled "Access to Inequality: Reconsidering Class, Knowledge, and Capital in Higher Education" | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, May 16, 2014), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation continue to grow, underlining a deep contradiction within American higher education.
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9780465044962 | Basic Books, March 11, 2014, cover price $27.99
Product Description: The Smart Society offers a detailed blueprint for how the United States can recast its human capital policies to make all AmericansÂnot just a privileged eliteÂsmarter and more successful than ever before, at the same time stemming the size and cost of the nation's "safety net...read more
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9781594037009 | Encounter Books, February 11, 2014, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: The Smart Society offers a detailed blueprint for how the United States can recast its human capital policies to make all AmericansÂnot just a privileged eliteÂsmarter and more successful than ever before, at the same time stemming the size and cost of the nation's "safety net.
Product Description: After first appearing in 1979 in Tennessee, performance funding for higher education went on to be adopted by another 26 states. This monograph reviews research on a multitude of states to address these questions: • What impacts does performance funding have on institutional practices and, ultimately, student outcomes? • What obstacles and unintended effects do performance funding encounter? This monograph finds considerable impacts on institutional practices, weak impacts on student outcomes, substantial obstacles, and sizable unintended impacts...read more
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9781118754382 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, July 10, 2013, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: After first appearing in 1979 in Tennessee, performance funding for higher education went on to be adopted by another 26 states.
Product Description: This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context...read more
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9780230369788 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 15, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context.
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9781610691710 | Abc-Clio Inc, March 21, 2013, cover price $58.00
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9781623961244 | Information Age Pub Inc, January 31, 2013, cover price $85.99
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9781623961237 | Information Age Pub Inc, January 31, 2013, cover price $45.99
Product Description: Higher education is a linchpin of the American economy and society: teaching and research at colleges and universities contribute significantly to the nation's economic activity, both directly and through their impact on future growth; federal and state governments support teaching and research with billions of taxpayers' dollars; and individuals, communities, and the nation gain from the learning and innovation that occur in higher education...read more
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9780309257749 | Natl Academy Pr, December 31, 2012, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Higher education is a linchpin of the American economy and society: teaching and research at colleges and universities contribute significantly to the nation's economic activity, both directly and through their impact on future growth; federal and state governments support teaching and research with billions of taxpayers' dollars; and individuals, communities, and the nation gain from the learning and innovation that occur in higher education.
Product Description: Few in the United States will dispute the assumption that every high school graduate should be entitled to go to college regardless of financial need. But should everyone be able to go regardless of academic preparedness? Jackson Toby explores the idea that federal financial aid programs, all of which peg student aid to need alone and not to academic performance, are dragging down college admissions and academic standards to the point where Americaâs schools, students, and economy will no longer be globally competitive...read more
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9781412846240 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, March 15, 2012), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Few in the United States will dispute the assumption that every high school graduate should be entitled to go to college regardless of financial need.
Product Description: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications...read more
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9780737758375 | Greenhaven Pr, August 12, 2011, cover price $33.80 | About this edition: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications.
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9780737758368 | Greenhaven Pr, August 12, 2011, cover price $48.80 | About this edition: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications.
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9781441106223 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 12, 2011, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: A critical exploration of the pedagogical and practical issues that are raised when Arts academics engage in primary and secondary schools outreach.
Product Description: College cost per student has been on the rise at a pace that matches - or exceeds - healthcare costs. Unlike healthcare, though, teaching quality has declined, and rapidly rising costs and declining quality are not trends easily forgiven by society...read more
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9781849806169 | Edward Elgar Pub, May 11, 2011, cover price $116.00 | About this edition: College cost per student has been on the rise at a pace that matches - or exceeds - healthcare costs.
9780201123876, titled "Zork I: Pdp-11" | Dskt edition (Addison-Wesley, April 1, 1984), cover price $59.95 | also contains Zork I: Pdp-11
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9781781953389 | Edward Elgar Pub, November 12, 2012, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: College cost per student has been on the rise at a pace that matches - or exceeds - healthcare costs.
Product Description: Do for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) pose a threat to traditional providers of higher education, or do they play a vital role at a time when the capacity of public and private non-profits to meet demand is constrained? With the US no longer the leader in developing a college-educated workforce, can FPCUs help redress the competitive gap? What can be learned from the management practices and growth of FPCUs â that now number close to 3,000 institutions in the US â whose increase in enrollments has out-paced that of traditional institutions, and who now grant around 8% of all degrees? This book offers a clear-eyed and balanced analysis of for-profit colleges and universities, reviewing their history, business strategies, and management practices; setting them in the context of marketplace conditions, the framework of public policy and government regulations; and viewing them in the light of the public good...read more
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9781579224240 | 1 edition (Stylus Pub Llc, February 28, 2010), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Do for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) pose a threat to traditional providers of higher education, or do they play a vital role at a time when the capacity of public and private non-profits to meet demand is constrained?
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9781579224257 | Stylus Pub Llc, February 28, 2010, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Do for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) pose a threat to traditional providers of higher education, or do they play a vital role at a time when the capacity of public and private non-profits to meet demand is constrained?
Product Description: Academic Entrepreneurship is now an institutionalized trend across the contemporary U.S. higher education system. This monograph provides a concise but thorough overview and discussion of the primary literatures that address the trends and implications of entrepreneurship on contemporary higher education environments in the United States...read more
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9780470479933 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, February 17, 2009, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Academic Entrepreneurship is now an institutionalized trend across the contemporary U.
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9780871173690 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $25.00
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9780397322114 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, February 1, 1988, cover price $12.95 | also contains The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations | About this edition: A little sheep who doesn't like to go to bed at night changes her mind after a visit to the Dream Factory.
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9780397322121 | Harpercollins, February 1, 1988, cover price $12.89 | also contains The Rise of Birds: 225 Million Years of Evolution | About this edition: A little sheep who doesn't like to go to bed at night changes her mind after a visit to the Dream Factory.
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9780201123876 | Dskt edition (Addison-Wesley, April 1, 1984), cover price $59.95 | also contains The College Cost Disease: Higher Cost and Lower Quality
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