{"product_id":"lower-ed-9781620974384","title":"Lower Ed","description":" \u003cspan\u003e\"The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs featured on \u003cem\u003eThe Daily Show\u003c\/em\u003e, NPR's \u003cem\u003eMarketplace\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/em\u003e, the \"powerful, chilling tale\" (Carol Anderson, author of \u003cem\u003eWhite Rage\u003c\/em\u003e) of higher education becoming an engine of social inequality\u003c\/span\u003e \u0026lt;\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLower Ed\u003c\/em\u003e is quickly becoming the definitive book on the fastest-growing sector of higher education at the turn of the twenty-first century: for-profit colleges. With sharp insight and deliberate acumen, Tressie McMillan Cottom—a sociologist who was once a recruiter at two for-profit colleges—expertly parses the fraught dynamics of this big-money industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on more than one hundred interviews with students, employees, executives, and activists, \u003cem\u003eLower Ed\u003c\/em\u003e details the benefits, pitfalls, and real costs of the expansion of for-profit colleges. Now with a new foreword by Stephanie Kelton, economic advisor to Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign, this smart and essential book cuts to the very core of our nation's broken social contracts and the challenges we face in our divided, unequal society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tressie McMillan Cottom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48283981840635,"sku":"9781620974384","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_3f30a16f-5213-443b-b8b3-9df141b3f9a0.jpg?v=1771389932","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/lower-ed-9781620974384","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}