Andrew Hacker/Andrew Dreifus's Are Colleges Worth The Price Of Admission?

In my family, I was always expected to go to college right after high school, but I didn’t know it was going to be expensive. College tuition is very expensive, and graduating with debt is becoming highly common nowadays. The two essays I chose for this paper are Andrew Hacker/Claudia Dreifus’s “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission”?, and Kevin Carey’s “Why Do You Think They’re Called For-Profit Colleges”?. Because they have similar messages that they both are trying to inform us about. But Hacker and Dreifus College use evidence in better ways they are more organized by putting their topics into categories and explaining what the main sentence means, and you know what they are trying to say; Carey’s writing is more scattered around, so you don’t know what comes next. Although they both talk about college finances, Hacker/Dreifus make a better understanding of the essay, and they keep you

Hacker is professor emeritus of political science at Queens College in New York. Dreifus teaches international affairs and media at Columbia University.They both have a college education and can relate to college students about finances and so on. They both went on a mission to ask questions and interview higher-education leaders, policy makers, and students across the country. Their conclusion: “Colleges are taking on too many roles and doing none of them well. They are staffed by casts of thousands and dedicated to everything from esoteric research to vocational training-and have lost track of their basic mission to challenge the minds of young people. Higher education has become a colossus -a $420 billion industry-immune from security and in need of reform” (180). They give more than just the issue. They want to improve the students learning as