{"product_id":"book-blqs","title":"The End of College","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom a renowned education writer comes a paradigm-shifting examination of the rapidly changing world of college that every parent, student, educator, and investor needs to understand.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eOver the span of just nine months in 2011 and 2012, the world's most famous universities and high-powered technology entrepreneurs began a race to revolutionize higher education. College courses that had been kept for centuries from all but an elite few were released to millions of students throughout the world-for free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eExploding college prices and a flagging global economy, combined with the derring-do of a few intrepid innovators, have created a dynamic climate for a total rethinking of an industry that has remained virtually unchanged for a hundred years. In \u003cem\u003eThe End of College\u003c\/em\u003e, Kevin Carey, an education researcher and writer, draws on years of in-depth reporting and cutting-edge research to paint a vivid and surprising portrait of the future of education. Carey explains how two trends-the skyrocketing cost of college and the revolution in information technology-are converging in ways that will radically alter the college experience, upend the traditional meritocracy, and emancipate hundreds of millions of people around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eInsightful, innovative, and accessible, \u003cem\u003eThe End of College\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read, and an important contribution to the developing conversation about education in this country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Carey elegantly blends policy analysis, reportage [and] memoir into a hard-charging indictment of the eggheads and ivory towers many Americans love to hate. … Part alternative history and part road trip, the book is a tour guide to higher education … [A] readable and thoughtful book … [Carey has] a gift for finding fascinating characters and explaining complex ideas clearly.\"\u003c\/em\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49385276113200,"sku":"BDblqs","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49385276145968,"sku":"ZEblqs","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49385276178736,"sku":"ZMblqs","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/blqs-cover.jpg?v=1760723873","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-blqs","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}