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The Coddling of the American Mind

How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

by Jonathan Haidt and 1 more

Narrated by Jonathan Haidt

Unabridged

10 hours 6 min
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Coddling of the America Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, read by Jonathan Haidt.What doesn't kill you makes you weakerAlways trust your feelingsLife is a battle between good people and evil peopleThese three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being, as well as ancient wi... ... Read more
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The Closing of the American Mind

by Allan Bloom

Narrated by Christopher Hurt

Unabridged

14 hours 40 min
More than just a huge #1 bestseller, this is one of the great and vitally important books of our time. Allan Bloom, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago and a noted translator of Plato and Rousseau, argues that the social and political crisis of twentieth century America is really an intellectual crisis. From the universities’ lack of purpose to their students’ lack of ... Read more
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How to Succeed at a Two-Year College

An Easy-to-Follow Guide

by Neil S. Plakcy and 1 more

Narrated by Neil S. Plakcy and 1 more

Unabridged

27 min
Do you have questions about college? What kind of college to attend, how to pay for it, what to study and how to prepare for a career?How to Succeed at a Two-Year College answers those questions, and more. If you are a high school student (or the parent of one), a veteran, a returning student, or just curious about what a two-year college can offer, this is the book for you.Too many college ... Read more
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How Smart Students Pay for School, 2nd Edition

The Best Way to Save for College, Get the Right Loans, and Repay Debt

by Reyna Gobel MBA

Narrated by Meredith Mitchell

Unabridged

1 hour 39 min
In the second edition of How Smart Students Pay for School, there’s a valuable new section for military service members, veterans, and their families. Tax numbers are updated for the early 2013 tax filing season. Recent graduates will learn about the new income-based repayment plan, Pay as You Earn.Getting into college is just as hard as figuring out how to pay for it. In this original audiobook, ... Read more
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Racing to the Bottom Part 2: Thoughts on the Bureaucratization of Education

by J.-M. Kuczynski

Narrated by J.-M. Kuczynski

Unabridged

1 hour 23 min
Bureaucrats have replaced thinkers. ... Read more
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Scholarship Cannot be Subordinated to Department Politics

by J.-M. Kuczynski

Narrated by J.-M. Kuczynski

Unabridged

1 min
One is either a bureaucrat or a scholar; one cannot be both. ... Read more
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Individual coaching demystifies college

by PBS NewsHour

Narrated by PBS NewsHour

Unabridged

7 min
Final deadlines for college applications are looming this week, and students who are first in their families to attend college are far less likely to have help navigating the application system. The College Advising Corps aims to change that by recruiting college graduates to advise first-generation applicants. Hari Sreenivasan visits two New York City high schools to see the Corps in action. ... Read more
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When Grit Isn't Enough

A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College-For-All Promise

by Linda F. Nathan

Narrated by Coleen Marlo

Unabridged

6 hours 36 min
Examines major myths informing American education and explores how educators can better serve students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don’t disadvantage students on the basis of race or incomeEach year, as the founding headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy (BAA), an urban high school that boasts a 94 percent college acceptance rate, Linda Nathan made a ... Read more
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Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education

by Nathan D. Grawe

Narrated by BJ Harrison

Unabridged

6 hours 6 min
Higher education faces a looming demographic storm. Decades-long patterns in fertility, migration, and immigration persistently nudge the country toward the Hispanic Southwest. As a result, the Northeast and Midwest-traditional higher education strongholds-expect to lose five percent of their college-aged populations between now and the mid-2020s. In Demographics and the Demand for Higher ... Read more
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For these college students, the most difficult test is basic survival

by PBS NewsHour

Narrated by PBS NewsHour

Unabridged

7 min
The biggest challenge for these college students may not be exams or papers, but finding the means to survive. While the University of California system has worked to bring in more first-generation and “non-traditional” students, helping them stay, succeed and meet basic needs like getting enough food requires greater investment. Jeffrey Brown reports from Berkeley, California. ... Read more
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Racing to the Bottom part 3

Thoughts on the Bureaucratization of Education

by J.-M. Kuczynski

Narrated by J.-M. Kuczynski

Unabridged

1 hour 37 min
Thoughts on personal and institutional psychopathology.Thoughts on psychopathology in relation to the bureaucratization of education. ... Read more
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The Craft of University Teaching

by Peter Lindsay

Narrated by Jeremy Arthur

Unabridged

5 hours 9 min
What does university teaching as a craft look like? What changes does a craft perspective suggest for higher education? The Craft of University Teaching addresses these questions in both a general sense What does the act of teaching become when treated as a craft? What changes to a professor’s educational philosophy does it require? and with respect to the practical, everyday tasks of university ... Read more
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Monsters of the Ivy League

by Steve Radlauer and 1 more

Narrated by David L. Nelson

Unabridged

6 hours 39 min
Everybody knows that the schools of the Ivy League -- universally touted as the pinnacle of American higher education -- have graduated countless political leaders, corporate titans, and global power brokers. But did you know these schools have also produced murderers, warmongers, traitors, plagiarists, slave traders, pederasts, and every other variety of moral reprobate?Whether you're a high ... Read more
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Cash Poor or College?

The Essential Guide to College Admissions for Teens (ages 13 to 18) & Their Parents

by Diane M. Warmsley

Narrated by Raymond Warmsley

Unabridged

3 hours 7 min
Cash Poor or College?: TheEssential Guide to College Admissions for Teens (ages 13 to 18) & Their Parents is a blueprint for mapping a pathway to college.It offers teens a strategic approach to accessing higher education by utilizingthe entire high school experience to maximum benefit. Each year is givensingular focus so that the relevant information and assignments the student needs to know are ... Read more
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Colorado apprenticeship program turns the factory floor into a classroom

Rethinking College

by PBS NewsHour

Narrated by PBS NewsHour
series Rethinking College
Unabridged

5 min
Some high school students in Colorado may get prime jobs even before they get their diplomas. That’s because CareerWise, the nation’s first statewide youth apprenticeship program, links students to industries and addresses manufacturers’ demand for skills, while offering employment, academic credit and support for college. Hari Sreenivasan reports as part of our Rethinking College series. ... Read more
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How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School

by Kathryne M. Young

Narrated by Teri Barrington

Unabridged

10 hours 33 min
Each year, over 40,000 new students enter America's law schools. Each new crop experiences startlingly high rates of depression, anxiety, fatigue, and dissatisfaction. Kathryne M. Young was one of those disgruntled law students. After finishing law school (and a PhD), she set out to learn more about the law school experience and how to improve it for future students. Young conducted one of the ... Read more
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next generation of African-American doctors finds success and support at this university, The

Rethinking College

by PBS NewsHour

Narrated by PBS NewsHour
series Rethinking College
Unabridged

6 min
Xavier University, a small, historically black college in New Orleans, manages to graduate more African Americans who go on to become medical doctors than any other undergraduate institution in the country -- a fact that's even more striking given a drop in black males applying to medical schools. In our series Rethinking College, Hari Sreenivasan reports on what sets the school apart. ... Read more
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Champions Way

Football, Florida, and the Lost Soul of College Sports

by Mike McIntire

Narrated by Barry Abrams

Unabridged

6 hours 37 min
Champions Way is a searing expose of how the multibillion-dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes. College sports have never been bigger. Once a roughneck intercollegiate pastime, football now commands millions of fans and generates massive revenues. New York Times investigative reporter Mike McIntire chronicles the rise in the popularity and power of college ... Read more
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Will College Pay Off?

A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You'll Ever Make

by Peter Cappelli

Narrated by Tom Perkins

Unabridged

6 hours 51 min
The decision of whether to go to college, or where, is hampered by poor information and inadequate understanding of the financial risk involved. Adding to the confusion, the same degree can cost dramatically different amounts for different people. A barrage of advertising offers us new degrees designed to lead to specific jobs, but we see no information on whether graduates ever get those jobs. In ... Read more
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Neurotic Punctilios Posing as Canons of Logical Rigor

by J.-M. Kuczynski

Narrated by J.-M. Kuczynski

Unabridged

2 min
Many of the so-called 'canons of rigor' that are applied to scholarly work are really artificial bureaucratic stumbling blocks that have nothing to do with intellectual rigor; and when people actually internalize these bureaucratic protocols, they assume the form of neurotic compulsions that do nothing but sterilize one's intellectual work-product. ... Read more
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Colleges and Universities See Graying Workforce

by PBS NewsHour

Narrated by PBS NewsHour

Unabridged

10 min
In academia, many professors remain working and teaching long past traditional retirement age, leaving younger potential professors shut out from highly coveted full-time, tenured positions. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on how institutions deal with aging faculty. ... Read more
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Geeky Pedagogy

A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers

by Jessamyn Neuhaus

Narrated by Randye Kaye

Unabridged

7 hours 9 min
Geeky Pedagogy is a funny, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, pragmatic, highly accessible guide to the process of learning and relearning how to be an effective college teacher. It is the first college teaching guide that encourages faculty to embrace their inner nerd, inviting listeners to view themselves and their teaching work in light of contemporary discourse that celebrates increasingly ... Read more
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Yale Needs Women

How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant

by Anne Gardiner Perkins

Narrated by Erin Bennett

Unabridged

9 hours 59 min
In the winter of 1969, from big cities to small towns, young women across the country sent in applications to Yale University for the first time. The Ivy League institution dedicated to graduating "one thousand male leaders" each year had finally decided to open its doors to the nation's top female students. The landmark decision was a huge step forward for women's equality in education. Or was it ... Read more
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College Admission Hacks

by Life 'n' Hack

Narrated by Life 'n' Hack

Unabridged

40 min
Unlock The Keys To Increase Chances Of Getting Into College With Low GPACollege admission has become a cutthroat process. Top schools seemingly become more and more difficult to gain entry to with the ever-increasing applicant pool of the best and brightest. For the ambitious student, it can seem like a jungle of insurmountable obstacles and questions.How much does GPA matter? Do I have to have a ... Read more
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