US HIGHER EDUCATION ACCUSED OF FAILING THE AMERICAN DREAM, BUT IS THAT FAIR?
June 1st, 2019
UNIVERSITIES and colleges in the USA are being accused of moving away from the so-called ‘American dream’ of social mobility, a panel discussion at the Worldviews Conference held at the University of Toronto, Canada, has heard. The focus of this debate was the question - what is the civic education mission of universities, colleges and the media in the 21st century, and how this is playing out in the United States? Held at the university’s Innis College and entitled Cognitive Dissonance: The Response of Higher Education and Media to the Clash of ...
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