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Reclaiming the Game : College Sports and Educational Values.
In Reclaiming the Game, William Bowen and Sarah Levin disentangle the admissions and academic experiences of recruited athletes, walk-on athletes, and other students. In a field overwhelmed by reliance on anecdotes, the factual findings are striking--and sobering. Anyone seriously concerned about hi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In Reclaiming the Game, William Bowen and Sarah Levin disentangle the admissions and academic experiences of recruited athletes, walk-on athletes, and other students. In a field overwhelmed by reliance on anecdotes, the factual findings are striking--and sobering. Anyone seriously concerned about higher education will find it hard to wish away the evidence that athletic recruitment is problematic even at those schools that do not offer athletic scholarships. Thanks to an expansion of the College and Beyond database that resulted in the highly influential studies The Shape of the River and The. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (497 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400840700 1400840708 1283134748 9781283134743 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |