Title The years that matter most : how college makes or breaks us / Paul Tough.

Publication Info.	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
	©2019

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Description	viii, 390 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-370) and index.
Summary	"The best-selling author of How Children Succeed returns with a devastatingly powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
	Can a college education today provide real opportunity to young Americans seeking to improve their station in life? Tough reveals how the landscape of higher education has shifted in recent decades, and exposes the hidden truths of how the system works and whom it works for. He introduces readers to the people who really make higher education go, while taking them on a journey from Ivy League seminar rooms to community college welding shops, from giant public flagship universities to tiny experimental storefront colleges. -- adapted from jacket
Contents	Wanting in. Decision day ; The mobility equation -- Getting in. Stress test ; Income-typical behavior ; Taylorsville -- Fixing the test. Reputation management ; Test prep ; Blessed -- Fitting in. The outsider ; Roots ; Pedigree ; Thanksgiving -- Letting in. The admissions-industrial complex ; Going test-optional ; Trinity's problem -- Staying in. The graduation gap ; Belonging ; An intrusive culture -- Hanging on. Who needs college? ; Lower ed -- Getting an A. Ancestors ; What is X? ; Workshop mode -- After the war. The GI Bill ; Playing for first.
Subject	Universities and colleges -- Admission -- Social aspects.
	Educational equalization.
	College student orientation.
	College students -- Social conditions.
	College students -- Attitudes.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes.
	EDUCATION / Higher.
	HISTORY / Social History.
	College student orientation. (OCoLC)fst00867971
	College students -- Attitudes. (OCoLC)fst00867980
	College students -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00868048
	Educational equalization. (OCoLC)fst00903418
Added Title	How college makes or breaks us
Other Form:	Online version: Tough, Paul, author. Years that matter most Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019] 9780544944367 (DLC) 2019022277
ISBN	9780544944480 (hardcover)
	0544944488 (hardcover)

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