Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy

"The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students."—The New York Times Book Review
As featured on The Daily Show, NPR's Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the "powerful, chilling tale" (Carol Anderson, author of White Rage) of higher education becoming an engine of social inequality.

Lower Ed 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...