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Accountability in American Higher Education

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  1. Kevin Carey
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  2. Mark Schneider
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Part of the book series: Education Policy (EDPOLICY)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Kevin Carey, Mark Schneider
    Pages 1-5

  3. On the Foundations of Standardized Assessment of College Outcomes and Estimating Value Added

    • Jeffrey Steedle
    Pages 7-31

  4. Faculty Scholarly Productivity at American Research Universities

    • Lawrence B. Martin
    Pages 33-119

  5. Student-Unit Record Systems and Postsecondary Accountability: Exploiting Emerging Data Resources

    • Peter T. Ewell
    Pages 121-140

  6. Higher-Education Finance and Accountability

    • Terry Long Bridget
    Pages 141-163

  7. Death of a University

    • Kevin Carey
    Pages 165-188

  8. What’s Governance Got to Do with It?

    • Anne D. Neal, Erin O’Connor, Maurice Black
    Pages 189-210

  9. How College Rankings Are Going Global (and Why Their Spread Will Be Good for Higher Education)

    • Ben Wildavsky
    Pages 211-249

  10. The Politics of Higher Education

    • Mark Schneider
    Pages 251-271

  11. Accountability for Community Colleges: Moving Forward

    • Sara Goldrick-Rab
    Pages 273-293

  12. Scaling Back Tenure: How Claims of Academic Freedom Limit Accountability in Higher Education

    • Naomi Schaefer Riley
    Pages 295-315

  13. Policy Barriers to Postsecondary Cost Control

    • Burck Smith
    Pages 317-335

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 337-355
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In Accountability in American Higher Education prominent academics, entrepreneurs, and journalists assess the obstacles to, and potential opportunities for, accountability in higher education in America. Providing analysis that can be used to engage institutions of higher education in the difficult but necessary conversation of accountability.

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"The importance of this topic should be self evident in the United States. We no longer lead the world in terms of the share of our young adults with college degrees. Inequality in educational attainment across groups persists in the United States and the groups that are growing the most rapidly are the groups that are underrepresented in higher education. Tuition levels keep rising at rates that exceed the rate of inflation and we worry that increasing college costs are going to prevent us from improving our educational performance. This book will be an important one." - Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics; Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow; and Director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI), Cornell University

About the authors

KEVIN CAREY Policy Director of Education Sector in Washington, D.C, USA.

MARK SCHNEIDER is Vice President for New Education Initiatives at the American Institutes for Research with the American Enterprise Institute and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University, State University of New York, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Accountability in American Higher Education

  • Authors: Kevin Carey, Mark Schneider

  • Series Title: Education Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115309

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Education Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Kevin Carey and Mark Schneider 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11031-1Published: 19 January 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29273-8Published: 19 January 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11530-9Published: 20 December 2010

  • Series ISSN: 2945-7572

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-7580

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 355

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy and Politics

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