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The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself Hardcover – January 7, 2014

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Economist Herb Stein famously said that something that can't go on forever, won't. For decades now, America has been investing ever-growing fortunes into its K-12 education system in exchange for steadily worse results. Public schools haven't changed much from the late 19th century industrial model and as a result young Americans are left increasingly unprepared for a competitive global economy. At the same time, Americans are spending more than they can afford on higher education, driven by the kind of cheap credit that fueled the housing bubble. With college graduates unable to secure employment or pay off student loans, the real-world value of a traditional college education is in question.

In The New School, Glenn Harlan Reynolds explains how parents, students and educators can, and must, reclaim and remake American education. Already, Reynolds explains, many Americans are abandoning traditional education for new models. Many are going to charter schools or private schools, but others are going another step beyond and making the leap to online educationover 1.8 million K-12 students already.

The New School does not prescribe a one-size-fits-all solution for education. Americans require a diverse system of innovative approacheseach suited to a family’s needs and spending potential. But with the profusion of online education, school choice, and even a return to alternatives like apprenticeships and on the job training, Americans hold the power to lower costs and improve outcomes from the ground up.

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Glenn Harlan Reynolds is the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee. He blogs at InstaPundit.com and writes for such publications as The Atlantic, Forbes, Popular Mechanics, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. He lives in Knoxville, TN.

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594037108
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594037108
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.7 x 9.1 inches

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Customers find the content very informative, easy to understand, and thoroughly researched. They say it provides a good summary of the situation facing higher and secondary schools. Readers also mention the book provides a good introduction and background into the history, mistakes, and efforts of educational. They say it recommends great solutions to higher learning and offers insight for K-12 schools.

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"...assessment of the status of legal education is especially honest and credible coming from a professor of law...." Read more

"...educational circumstances will find the book stimulating and provocative; it may help them change course by helping them realize they are not alone..." Read more

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Customers find the book easy to read, fun, and a quick read. They say it's well-thought-out, well-researched, and written in an accessible style. Readers mention the book is a good starting point for further pursuit of a solution.

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"...It is a fun quick read on an important issue (the justification for a 4 star). Unfortunately there is too little substance in the 104 pages...." Read more

"But imho he's right about everything else. This is a must read for parents, and it'll be a scary read for folks in the industrial/governmental..." Read more

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"Educating our Youth is becoming much less expensive, and much more effective because we can video tape our best Teachers and Professors, thus making..." Read more

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An extremely concise, encompassing, easy to read single source on current issues/problems in the educational industry. If there was the need for one more page, I'm sure Glenn would have added it.

I'm a regular reader of Glenn's blog and bought this book as small payback for all the web time he's given me. Didn't even intend to read it figuring I'd seen it all from his website. Then I see this little, 104 page book come in the mail and I'm thinking "you've got to be kidding me". Based on how concise and pithy his blog titles are, I should have known better than to judge his work by its size. And the small size got me to actually read it. Wow!

(Sorry for the length of this commentary but I am clearly NOT Glenn.) After reading the first couple pages I couldn't help starting to highlight items as if it were a class assignment. First started with a line here or there. Then I'm circling a paragraph or two. Now I'm dogearing a page or two. Not many books of mine get dogeared pages; but, halfway through I'm starting to dogear the top AND bottom of a page for significance. Already I've singled out more than I typically would in a complete text three times this size, and then it happened. I have a double dogeared page facing a double dogeared page with the need to double dogear the following page. That's never happened before. Admittedly, my review skills are self taught but have served me well through several degrees. They've come up way short in reading this 'little' book of Glenn's. And I thought I'd already been up on the subject through his blog.

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What is "The New School"

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The Herb Stein truism that “If something can’t go on forever, it won’t” – repeated redundantly in the pages of this book – is certainly the author’s main thesis of the inevitable bursting of the debt to value bubble in higher education. He makes succinct analogies to economic bubbles (as is this one). His assessment of the status of legal education is especially honest and credible coming from a professor of law. It is a fun quick read on an important issue (the justification for a 4 star). Unfortunately there is too little substance in the 104 pages. The title ‘The New School’ as well as the chapter headings lead the reader to believe the book will discuss the transition to a new paradigm in education brought on by MOOC and other technologies. The author clearly defines the issues of excess reliance on debt and the relevance of higher education but he stops with these definitions. Each chapter reads like an introduction to the genuine article but to our disappointment it never comes. (His C-span book-notes presentation was better than the book). The book is a good starting point for further pursuit of a solution to that essential transition. The classic book ‘The innovator’s Dilemma’ by Clayton Christensen offers some parallels to the transitions – in that the actions of academia, like any firm dominating a market for a product, is not acting irrationally in continuing to serve that market in the existing business model, as the market research will continue to show that the customer still demands the product. It is only when the disruptive technology, usually from an upstart firm, creates a new product that the change becomes obvious and inevitable. Still, it would be encouraging to believe that the value inherent in our existing educational institutions could be preserved while adopting efficiencies of interactive learning. Perhaps Mr. Reynolds will produce a new edition of his book exploring these possibilities – or perhaps just an interactive Massive Open Online Course.

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Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2014

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“Everyone knows there’s a problem” with both higher and lower education, writes Glenn Reynolds, a law professor and creator of the world famous Instapundit.com blog. But, sadly many people in America remain in denial, unwilling to see the writing on the…er, screen. Reynolds in his usual terse and cohesive style has produced a small gem that consistently demonstrates how current educational frameworks trigger increasing costs without commensurate gains in outcomes. Worse, we seem to be moving inexorably toward a critical period where the financial underpinnings of these dysfunctional frameworks are no longer sustainable. Even if money was there, isn’t it time we were all asking why so much money spent on education doesn’t produce better educated students?

Reynolds correctly points out the players involved in the modern decline of education, and no surprise virtually all the culprits are those who continue to reap money, power or security by maintaining the status quo: teachers’ unions, college administrators, lending institutions, and the government. But, as he reiterates, “something that can’t go on forever, won’t.” The question is whether these entities can go to school on the troubles staring them in face, or will they continue groping for more taxpayer money, no doubt, with a battle cry: “it’s all for the children?”

This work is a forward thinking effort that outlines several alternatives, many of which are inevitable no matter the degree of resistance dredged up by the old school. Many parents and students who are already questioning their current educational circumstances will find the book stimulating and provocative; it may help them change course by helping them realize they are not alone in their concerns about who is in charge of the learning systems for their children. The book should be mandatory reading for a whole lot of educators who absolutely will never read it. So, I offer this suggestion to anyone interested in seeing real change in our model of education: buy at least one copy of The New School and give it to a teacher or a principal at your area school.

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