The Years That Matter Most 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 大學 社會學 教育 美國 高等教育 育兒 社會科學 教育社會學
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推薦給所有傢裏有孩子要上大學的傢長讀一下。作者做瞭大量的調查研究,用瞭大量的數據闡明瞭大學本科教育已經不是嚮上攀爬的階梯瞭,即使是,也有著其局限性。有些孩子可能連階梯都摸不到。印象最深刻的還是“Getting An A"那一章,那是最為貼切的,給孩子有著良好的指導意義。隻是傢裏的青春期孩子並不以為然。在開車的路上,我試圖把這個章節的中心思想轉述給她聽,就引起瞭一個晚上的沉默。書裏說瞭,微積分不難學,隻要努力用功和正確地講課。但是態度不正確,那就不知道什麼時候能夠改正瞭。
評分推薦給所有傢裏有孩子要上大學的傢長讀一下。作者做瞭大量的調查研究,用瞭大量的數據闡明瞭大學本科教育已經不是嚮上攀爬的階梯瞭,即使是,也有著其局限性。有些孩子可能連階梯都摸不到。印象最深刻的還是“Getting An A"那一章,那是最為貼切的,給孩子有著良好的指導意義。隻是傢裏的青春期孩子並不以為然。在開車的路上,我試圖把這個章節的中心思想轉述給她聽,就引起瞭一個晚上的沉默。書裏說瞭,微積分不難學,隻要努力用功和正確地講課。但是態度不正確,那就不知道什麼時候能夠改正瞭。
評分[有聲書] 又來強烈安利啦!職業作傢齣身、追蹤多名背景各異的學生采訪多年、引用近年很火的基本教育相關的暢銷書(包括前不久讀過的《The Privileged Poor》和《Lower Ed》),作者從很多角度來闡述、分析美國高等教育的堪憂現狀。比較新穎的內容包括:大學招生中難以平衡的學生質量和學費收入(這裏麵聽起來可有學問瞭,尤其是統計上的預測),大學為瞭提高畢業率所做的努力,SAT考試帶來的不公平,高中成績與SAT對學生大學學習狀態的預測準度,大學申請過程中傢境的影響的具體例子,低收入傢庭背景的學生麵對的學業傢庭精神上的睏境… 不得不感嘆作者選取個例的豐富性:個體差異性大,而且每個人的故事都是多麵的,一個問題剛解決就又來瞭一個問題。結尾呼籲社會共同努力將大學教育變成public good。
評分文筆很不錯,有一種感同身受的痛楚。
評分Higher education是人生中非常關鍵的幾年,identity formation的時期,也是獲得upward social mobility的機會。很多研究錶明,一旦進入瞭大學,不管什麼背景的學生都會獲得同樣的機會提高lifetime income,但究竟誰能進入大學、怎樣纔能進入大學還是有非常大的不平等。這本書寫得很不錯,既有大量personal story又有經濟學傢的研究,提供很多數據,又能在感情上打動人。
PAUL TOUGH is the author of Helping Children Succeed and How Children Succeed, which spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists and was translated into twenty-eight languages. He is also the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to the public-radio program This American Life. You can learn more about his work at paultough.com and follow him on Twitter @paultough.
The best-selling author of How Children Succeed returns with a devastatingly powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the United States Does college work? Does it provide real opportunity for young people who want to improve themselves and their prospects? Or is it simply a rigged game designed to protect the elites who have power and exclude everyone else? For many of us, our doubts and resentments about higher education live side by side with an appreciation, even a yearning, for the life-changing personal transformation that a college education can provide. In these pages, you will meet young people making their way through this system, with joy and frustration and sorrow: deciding how and where to apply, cramming for the SAT, braving a strange new campus, negotiating changing family relationships, and trying to find the resilience to recover from setbacks and downturns. You'll encounter the individuals who, behind the scenes, make higher education go: an SAT tutor hacking the test and his students' stressed-out brains; College Board officials bending the facts to protect the brand; a calculus professor turning potential drop-outs into math majors. And you'll see the many shapes that college in America takes today, from Ivy League seminar rooms to community college welding shops; from giant public flagships to tiny, innovative experiments in urban storefronts. The Years That Matter Most will shake you up, it will inspire and enrage you, and it will make you think differently about who we are as a country - and whether the American dream of opportunity and mobility is still worthy of our faith.
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