Title: The Years That Matter Most Pdf How College Makes or Breaks Us
Author: Paul Tough
Published Date: 2019
Page: 400
“Indelible and extraordinary, a powerful reckoning with just how far we’ve allowed reality to drift from our ideals.” —Tara Westover, author of Educated: A Memoir, New York Times Book Review “Gorgeously reported. Vividly written. Utterly lucid. Paul Tough jumps skillfully between deeply engaging personal narratives and the bigger truths of higher education. The way he tells the stories of these students, it’s impossible not to care about them and get angry on their behalf.” —Ira Glass, host, This American Life “Paul Tough’s important new book on the broken promises of higher education begins with a chapter that he succeeds in making as suspenseful as the prologue of any serial-killer novel and as heart-rending as the climax of an epic romance . . . Among his book’s many vital contributions are its portraits of schools and programs that model a better way.” —Frank Bruni, New York Times “Paul Tough’s daring The Years That Matter Most forces us to unfold the suffering built into the creases of American higher education. It refuses to let us forget about the bodies and lives of real students. It should be necessary reading for every student, professor, administrator, and trustee in this country interested in what radical revision looks like.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir “Paul Tough is a beautiful reporter and writer and a deeply moral guide to understanding the situation of children in our heartless meritocracy. The Years That Matter Most is a great book that should start a necessary conversation about the high cost of the race to the top.” —George Packer, author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century “Remarkable . . . [A] comprehensive, moving account of the inequalities that block many poor, minority, and first-generation students from realizing the benefits of a college education.” —Michael Nietzel, Forbes “All of the books by best-selling author Paul Tough have been meaningful . . . [The Years that Matters Most] arrives at the very moment when energized voters are pressing presidential hopefuls on how they would help all young people reach a middle-class life.” —Esther Cepeda, Chicago Tribune “[Tough] writes movingly about students who are trying to navigate the confounding, expensive, and intimidating process of getting into and staying in college.” —Wired “Paul Tough is a thinker to cherish: formidably clear-eyed, incandescently learned, and unshakably hopeful. Diving deep into the rewards, challenges, and perils of the American university system, The Years That Matter Most reveals the heavy price a society pays when it no longer pulls together to give its young people the education they need. An extraordinary, indispensable book.” —Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao “Tough’s exploration does for college admissions what Michael Lewis’s Moneyball did for sabermetrics.” —Jessica Lahey, Air Mail “A deeply reported and damning portrait of fraying American social mobility . . . a clear-eyed portrait of what a stacked game it really is.” —Quartz “Drawing on broad reading and visits to campuses across the country, Tough’s work offers an indictment of American society and political structures and persuasively argues that universities must fulfill the American commitment to equality of opportunity.” —Library Journal, starred review “Tough clearly shows that college placement remains mostly about wealth at the expense of a collective educational environment. A good choice for aspiring college students and their parents.” —Kirkus Reviews “In this fascinating study, education journalist Tough (How Children Succeed) argues persuasively that access to an elite college education, which in the U.S. is popularly believed to be a meritocratically distributed social equalizer, is in fact distributed in ways that reinforce existing economic divisions... His analyses of data are sound, his portraits of students and teachers sympathetic, his argument neatly structured, and his topic one with wide appeal. This well-written and persuasive book is likely to make a splash.” —Publishers Weekly “Tough’s book explores the real and terrifying idea that what you do (or don’t do) between the ages of 18 and 22—or even 16 to 25—profoundly shapes the course of your life . . . moving and memorable.” —The Hechinger Report “A timely reassessment of the promise that higher education offers everyone the same opportunity to move up in the world . . . no big players escapes Tough’s critical eye.” —Rebecca Koenig, EdSurge PAUL TOUGH is the author of Helping Children Succeed and How Children Succeed, which spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists and was translated into twenty-eight languages. He is also the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to the public-radio program This American Life. You can learn more about his work at paultough.com and follow him on Twitter @paultough.
The best-selling author of How Children Succeed returns with a powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the United States
Does college still work? Is the system designed just to protect the privileged and leave everyone else behind? Or can a college education today provide real opportunity to young Americans seeking to improve their station in life?
The Years That Matter Most tells the stories of students trying to find their way, with hope, joy, and frustration, through the application process and into college. Drawing on new research, the book reveals how the landscape of higher education has shifted in recent decades and exposes the hidden truths of how the system works and whom it works for. And it introduces us to the people who really make higher education go: admissions directors trying to balance the class and balance the budget, College Board officials scrambling to defend the SAT in the face of mounting evidence that it favors the wealthy, researchers working to unlock the mysteries of the college-student brain, and educators trying to transform potential dropouts into successful graduates.
With insight, humor, and passion, Paul Tough takes readers on a journey from Ivy League seminar rooms to community college welding shops, from giant public flagship universities to tiny experimental storefront colleges. Whether you are facing your own decision about college or simply care about the American promise of social mobility, The Years That Matter Most will change the way you think—not just about higher education, but about the nation itself.
A Crucial Contribution To the College Conversation Paul Tough has done it again.Just as Michael Lewis has a knack for explaining complex topics through relatable story lines, Tough has tackled a complex and inter-related journey of college access and completion and made the nuances and constraints accessible for the reader. While plenty of books tackle specific issues (debt, admissions, post-traditional students, standardized tests) Tough brings them together in a building narrative, and then reinforces their importance with a focus on the students who live the struggles and consequences of a system increasingly ill-equipped to serve those who would benefit most from a degree.If you've wondered if a degree still matters, why you can't work your way through college anymore, or how the very structures that once (largely through the GI Bill) expanded social mobility now perpetuate inequity, then this book is for you. Read, reflect, then find someone you know to walk alongside as they navigate their way towards a degree.Paul Tough Adds Another Remarkable Piece to His Body of Work It's rare to read a book about education, and feel like you can't put it down. This book is so powerful, and reflects the author's meticulous and thorough research approach that sheds light on one of the most important issues facing American society. You'll see how the pedigree of where you go to college really matters, especially for someone growing up in a low-income family. You'll read telling quotes from admissions officers as you understand the game they play -- reach a revenue goal, keep SAT scores high, allocate resources so you appear more selective and get more extended offers accepted. And, last on that list at many of our colleges, accept the gritty high-potential kid desperately trying to escape poverty. In one telling quote, an admissions officer explains the real challenge of the job isn't turning down kids they wish they could take, but taking (rich) kids they wish they could reject -- all to keep revenue up.Tough's at his best in explaining the machinations of the College Board and its SAT test. He lays bare the hypocrisy, and chronicles the many times the College Board has announced, with fanfare, findings that show the test isn't biased toward the affluent, or that 'tips and tricks' test prep isn't important, only to follow months, even years, of no substantiation, culminating -- finally -- in a buried report that their 'breakthrough research' is hollow at best, and deeply deceptive at worst. At one point, he likens their marketing to cover up the damage done to low-income, high-potential kids as along the lines of the tobacco companies. Wow!You'll follow a particularly successful SAT tutor in Washington, DC, who charges $400 per hour!! He starts by explaining to his (always quite affluent) customers that the SAT is a joke, tests nothing of consequence, and it's important not to view your score as a reflection of anything important, other than its impact on the college admissions process. He helps kids learn how not to stress over it, and shows them those little shortcuts that increase their chances of answering a question right, without understanding anything fundamental. And you see that these high-priced tutors really move the test-score needle for their affluent client base, while free alternatives like Khan Academy's SAT test prep offerings are ineffective. And you get a real sense of how the College Board tooled Khan Academy into its marketing message of, "Hey, we're so committed to equity that we'll make sure all students have access to high-quality test prep," when in fact it's the $400 tutors who matter, not free online lectures.After reading this book, you'll have a much better understand of the significant gap between colleges and the College Board purporting to help level society's playing field, and the cold, hard reality of a college system that works almost entirely for the affluent. It's an eye-opening examination of what many in our country view as a path of opportunity, but which the data show is a highly effective means of locking in privilege to our nation's most affluent. The implications of this are, to be sure, profound.At the end, I found that pang of regret that no further chapters await me, for now. But I would love for the author to consider a few other issues in his next work. The Years That Matter Most doesn't address how much our students are really learning in school, and whether our schools really do prepare our kids for success, or just rank them on hollow exercises. There's a telling chapter about the role calculus plays in 'weeding out kids,' and a quasi-inspiring story about a program at the University of Texas to help entering students (especially those who didn't have a background in calculus from their high school). Left unaddressed is that fact that even our science and engineering professionals don't do integrals by hand anymore -- it's all done computationally. Left unaddressed is how many majors (e.g., business, biology) nonsensically require calculus as a prerequisite. Or how when students take calculus, they generally miss out on statistics -- something that opens career doors, and is invaluable for citizenship and many personal decisions. But there's only so much that can be covered in one book.Make no mistake, Paul Tough's latest book is yet another vital contribution to our understanding of the world of education, and how is helps, and impairs, life prospects for millions. Read this. And if you know someone who works in college admissions, send them a copy!!
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