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Success Without College
Why Your Child May Not Have to Go to College Right Now-and May Not Have to Go At All
by Linda Lee
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Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Doubleday (March 14 2000)
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Chapter 1: The Case Against College
Here is who belongs in college: the high-achieving student who is interested in learning for learning's sake, those who intend to become schoolteachers and those young people who seem certain to go on to advanced degrees in law, medicine, architecture

Chapter 1: The Case Against College
Here is who belongs in college: the high-achieving student who is interested in learning for learning's sake, those who intend to become schoolteachers and those young people who seem certain to go on to advanced degrees in law, medicine, architecture

Chapter 1: High School Dropouts
Almost half a million teenagers drop out of high school every year, according to the United States Department of Education. In New York City, half of the entering freshmen don't graduate from high school.


About the Author

Linda LeeLinda Lee

Linda Lee is an editor and writer for the New York Times. She frequently contributes to the Style, Art & Leisure, and Business sections. The article she wrote for the education life supplement in 1998 entitled "What's the Rush? Why College Can Wait" generated an enormous amount of mail. In addition to the more than eighty articles she has written for the Times, Lee is the author of several books.

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