By Cuban, Professor Emeritus Larry Cuban
Reading a century of college heritage, Larry Cuban tackles the age-old query: what's extra vital, instructing or learn? utilizing departments (history and drugs) at Stanford college as a case learn, he exhibits how universities have subordinated educating to investigate on the grounds that 1890.
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