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Paying for the party
Elizabeth A. Armstrong · 初版 2013 年
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在学费飙升且人们日益担忧大学是否“值得”的时代，作者对美国高等教育的现状进行了评估。他们有力地揭露了未尽的职责与错位的重点，并生动详尽地解释了为什么如此多的人离开大学时却收获甚微。通过梳理中西部一所旗舰公立大学为学生提供的不同路径，作者指出，资源最丰富且最诱人的路径是以兄弟会/姐妹会系统（Greek system）为依托、由校方推波助澜的“派对路径”——而这给……带来了严重的劣势。
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卡普兰的整本书《教育的阴谋》（The Case Against Education）非常棒，如果这还没能说服你，不妨再去看看《Paying for the Party》：https://jakeseliger.com/2014/04/27/paying-for-the-party-eliz... ，这本书同样非常符合我在教育系统供给端亲身经历的体会。我们应该努力去污名化……
Caplan's whole book, The Case Against Education, is excellent, and if it doesn't convince you, try also Paying for the Party: https://jakeseliger.com/2014/04/27/paying-for-the-party-eliz... , which is, too, congruent with my own experience on the provider side of the education system. We ought to be moving towards de-stigmatizing…
……技能和高薪就业（医学、工程、金融），而另一群（规模更大的）人读的基本上是棉花糖式的划水学位（传播学、商科、传媒），换来的只有一身债务。《Paying for the Party》是一本探讨这个当代问题的好书。
…skills and gainful employment (medecine, engineering, finance), and the other (larger) group that are enrolled in mostly cotton-candy degrees (Communications, Business, Media) that lead just to debt. Paying for the Party is a good book that explores this modern issue.
如果你想找一本能让你对大学的同情心进一步消耗殆尽的书，试试《Paying For the Party》https://jakeseliger.com/2014/04/27/paying-for-the-party-eliz...
If you want a book that will further erode sympathy towards colleges, try Paying For the Party https://jakeseliger.com/2014/04/27/paying-for-the-party-eliz...
……加入他们。很多精英云集、学费昂贵的文科学位项目都可以这么说。有本很不错的书探讨了这种现象，以及当人们“搞不清状况/没领会潜规则”时会发生什么：伊丽莎白·A·阿姆斯特朗（Elizabeth A. Armstrong）写的《Paying For The Party: How College Maintains Inequality》（https://www.amazon.com/Paying-Party-College-Maintains-Inequa...）。
…to join them. This could be said of a lot of elite, expensive, liberal art degree programs There's a pretty good book that explores that phenomenon and what happens when people don't "get the memo": Paying For The Party: How College Maintains Inequality, by Elizabeth A. Armstrong (https://www.amazon.com/Paying-Party-College-Maintains-Inequa...).
《Paying for the Party》是一本好书，讨论了 STEM 学位增长停滞，而读市场营销、公关、传播学和工商管理学位的学生大把大把送钱的问题。
Paying for the Party is a good book about this issue of STEM degrees being flat and money being pumped in by students doing marketing, PR, communications, and business management degrees.
……http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo103... 3. 与第 2 点相关，大多数大学似乎为有需求的人衍生出了“非教育路线”：https://jakeseliger.com/2014/04/27/paying-for-the-party-eliz... 4. 参见布莱恩·卡普兰的书《教育的阴谋》（The Case Against Education），该书认为教育系统的大部分作用在于 signaling（信号传递），而不是人力资本教育。如果真是这样，我们应该更努力地去寻找……
…http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo103... 3. Related to #2, it seems that most colleges have evolved non-educational tracks for those who want them: https://jakeseliger.com/2014/04/27/paying-for-the-party-eliz... 4. See Bryan Caplan's book The Case Against Education, which argues that most of education system is about signaling, not human capital education. If that's true, we ought to work harder to find…