Fail U: the false promise of higher education
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"The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978 - four times the rate of inflation. Provocative, persuasive, clear-eyed, and even amusing, Fail U. strips the academic emperor of its clothes to reveal the American university system as it really is - and how it must change"--
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Fail U. : the false promise of higher education
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