For-Profit Education

By: Mitchell Young

Book Overview

This volume explores the topics relating to for-profit education. It presents varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise these issues. By evaluating divergent viewpoints, readers will activate their higher-level critical thinking and reading skills. Across four chapters, readers will examine whether for-profit education meets the needs of children, whether it meets the need of college students, whether it is a viable business model, and what the future may hold for American for-profit education. Essayists include Frederick M. Hess, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Brian Darling, Constance Gustke, and The Economist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0737758376
• ISBN13: 9780737758375
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12