10 must-read books about higher education in America

Check out these 10 books for a thorough grounding in where higher education stands in the US today.

8. 'The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges – and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates,' by Daniel Golden

In this book, Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Golden puts the tradition of legacy admissions under a microscope and considers how the system functions as affirmative action for the rich. The book shows how legacy admissions can privilege the under-qualified children of elites and how it perpetuates a stratified class system.

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