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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mary SolidayPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780822941866ISBN 10: 0822941864 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 01 September 2002 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsDemonstrates definitively that use of the term 'remediation' in American higher education is far more firmly tied to institutional and economic circumstances than to students' actual educational needs or desires. - Sharon Crowley, Arizona State University Deals with the complex political and educational background of the rise of open admissions, as well as its failed promise.... Soliday is particularly helpful in discussing how the attacks on remedial instruction have often misrepresented the enterprise. - John Brereton, University of Massachusetts at Boston Demonstrates definitively that use of the term 'remediation' in American higher education is far more firmly tied to institutional and economic circumstances than to students' actual educational needs or desires. - Sharon Crowley, Arizona State University Deals with the complex political and educational background of the rise of open admissions, as well as its failed promise.... Soliday is particularly helpful in discussing how the attacks on remedial instruction have often misrepresented the enterprise. - John Brereton, University of Massachusetts at Boston Author InformationMary Soliday, associate professor of English at the City College of New York, is Coordinator of the CCNY Writing Fellows Program, and an advocate for open admissions students at the City University of New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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