What's A Parent to Do?

How to Help Your Child Select the Right College

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What's A Parent to Do?

How to Help Your Child Select the Right College

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Each year over a million newly-minted high school graduates enroll in four-year colleges and universities across the country. They do so often after a lengthy and almost always stressful selection process. Faced with growing evidence of declining standards, rising political correctness and spiraling costs, families feel more powerless than ever before – and question whether a college degree is really the key to the American dream. What is a parent to do? This book provides an answer. Higher education expert Anne Neal offers families a concise guide to finding the right college. Rejecting the notion that reputation is everything, this guide offers insightful chapters on curricula and teaching, campus and dorm life, freedom of thought and speech, and affordability – issues that are more and more in the news. Families are given a handy checklist of questions designed to help them zero in on key issues of quality and cost to ensure a college program that will provide the skills and knowledge needed for success after graduation.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Zeroing in on Your Schools
Chapter 1: Brace Yourself
Chapter 2: Make a Match
Doing Research
Chapter 3: Insist on Academic Substance
Chapter 4: Look for Serious and Responsible Teaching
Chapter 5: Understand Campus Culture and Dorm Life
Chapter 6: Get the Facts on Drinking and Socializing
Chapter 7: Put A Premium on Free Speech
Chapter 8: Aim for Four Years and Out
Chapter 9: Learn the Real Cost (by Dr. Richard Vedder)
Chapter 10: Visit with Eyes Open
Remaining Involved
Chapter 11: Stay Connected
Chapter 12: Conclusion: Jump Right In!
Postscript: Take Action
Acknowledgments
Selecting a College Checklist
Appendix A
Appendix B
Endnotes

Product details

Published Jun 20 2017
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 138
ISBN 9781475808810
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 25 BW Illustrations
Dimensions 239 x 159 mm
Series New Frontiers in Education
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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