The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do about It

The Five-Year Party

How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do about It

By Craig Brandon
(BenBella Books, Paperback, 9781935251804, 236pp.)

Publication Date: August 2010

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook

Categories: Parent Participation, Higher

Description

"The Five-Year Party" will give parents the critical information they need about what is really happening at their child's college, and what they can do to ensure help their child gets a real education. Includes a selected list of "worst offender" subprime schools.

About the Author

Craig Brandon is the author of five books and a former education reporter and college writing teacher. His writing has won awards sponsored by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the National School Boards Association, the Associated Press and first prize in investigative reporting from the Education Writers Association. He lectures frequently on topics connected with his books and has appeared on the History Channel, PBS and “Unsolved Mysteries.”

Praise For The Five-Year Party…

"The Five-Year Party provides the most vivid portrait of college life since Tom Wolfe's 2004 novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons. The difference is that it isn't fiction. The alcohol-soaked, sex-saturated, drug-infested campuses that Mr. Brandon writes about are real. His book is a roadmap for parents on how to steer clear of the worst of them…. The Five-Year Party is a useful handbook for parents to pack when they take their teenager on a college tour, and its list of suggested questions is smart. My favorite: How many of the school's professors send their own children there?”
—The Wall Street Journal

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