Higher Education: just having one does not mean you can write well

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I recently read "Higher Education?How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids -- and What We Can Do About It" by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. Spoiler Alert: they never really give many concrete answers to "what we can do about it."  That part of the book is almost non-existent.

I wanted to like this book more than I did.  I wanted

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I'm less disturbed by the salaries being made by long-term, tenured faculty (a category that will be declining as they retire and their positions are not filled) as I am by the very poor pay for part-time teachers, hired on term-to-term contracts and used to teach significant chunks of undergraduate contact hours. These are usually PhDs who have recently finished their degrees and are trying to find a full-time position, but need to work to start paying off their educational debt. They are young, enthusiastic, and ultimately replaceable, by the next crop of docs.