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The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself Hardcover – Illustrated, 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 education—over 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 approaches—each 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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Publisher : Encounter Books; Illustrated edition (January 7, 2014)
Language : English
Hardcover : 112 pages
ISBN-10 : 1594037108
ISBN-13 : 978-1594037108
Item Weight : 12.5 ounces
Dimensions : 6.1 x 0.7 x 9.1 inches

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Mahatma Head

If You Care, Read This Book

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2017

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I taught at the college level for 40 years, and watched the overall quality of my students decline steadily as the propaganda content of their education increased. Colleges have taught what to think but not how to think. The progressive capture of the educational system is ruining education at all levels. From home schooling to private schools to vouchers to online study, Americans are finding their way around the barriers the educational bureaucracy puts in their way. And the cost of college has risen so high that students bear burdens for decades afterwards. Avoiding those costs becomes a major factor in increasing one's chance of financial and cultural success. You're doing it to yourselves, progressives, and you deserve what's coming to you. Mr. Reynolds articulates these concerns far better than I can. Everyone concerned with education should read this book.

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If Something Cannot Go On Forever, It Will Stop!

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2014

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Glenn Harlan Reynolds, founder of Instapundit and writer of two other (brief) books on the necessity of education reform, has written a more comprehensive book explaining the how, why, and (kind of) the what next of the education bubble. Unlike some pundits, Reynolds suggests that there is a bubble not just in higher education, but in k-12 education too: a perfect storm of education becoming more expensive, the (economic) value of diplomas and degrees declining, and the technology that makes creating and using new educational forms more and more viable. As Reynolds likes to put it (in the words of economist Herbert Stein), "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." And that is what he sees for both higher education and k-12.

Simply put, the education bubble - like any bubble - bursts when the cost of an investment begins to outweigh the likely return on investment. And, at this point, the cost of college degrees is proving to outweigh the rise in earning potential one gets by getting one. (And if anything, some have argued that increases in earning potential of college degrees owes more to the value of the certification - the degree itself - than the skills gained in obtaining the degree. So, what happens when employers start to question whether they are putting inflated value on the piece of paper and start hiring more people without degrees? Can you hear the bubble bursting?)

Oh, you say; well, education should be about personal growth and not increasing one's future earning potential? Well, sure, but not when it carries a five-figure price tag! (How many consumer services carry that steep a price... and still have willing consumers?) Or, maybe the government should subsidize more? Well, the problem is that like when anything is subsidized, the most likely result is that costs rise to absorb the subsidy. And if we start thinking the rising expenses and diminishing returns of k-12 education isn't terribly problematic because it is tax funded, then it is best to remember who is paying those taxes; answer: all of us. And how is it that we are teaching young people in the 21st century with a public school system that, very sadly, hasn't adapted terribly much in terms of teaching methods from its 19th century roots? Is that sustainable? If something can't go on forever....

The first half of the book or so is devoted to explaining why these bubbles in higher education and k-12 have formed and providing evidence that they've formed (and that more and more people are looking for ways to bypass traditional educational channels, often with the help of technology). The second half or so is a fairly vague outline of what Reynolds thinks will happen next. In fairness, Reynolds is vague because he (correctly) notes that no one really knows what will happen next, and the best we can do is to have some broad ideas of what might have to happen next. Vaguely, Reynolds suggests that both new forms of (what we now know as) k-12 and higher education will have to be less expensive and more adaptable to individuals, and probably something that embraces new technologies in a way that neither existing higher or k-12 education seems terribly interested in doing. (Reynolds seems quite taken by the idea - at least for higher education - that universities maintain their certification and degree-granting role while becoming more open about allowing students to learn materials on their own or at their own speed, possibly even without taking classes in favor of self-study.)

Those who have read Reynold's other books on education will find little new here, and as I mention, Reynolds's prescriptions and predictions are somewhat vague; while that may be disappointing in some way, it is also to his credit. Where Reynolds shines is in explaining (with a fair degree of historical accuracy, I think) the k-12 and higher education bubble and the evidence that it is either bursting already or, where it isn't, it will soon burst. And, also to his credit, he describes all this with a surprising tone of optimism (even though he is an academic).... which gives me (also an academic) a bit of hope that, if we all read and play our cards right, we can come through all of this with something better and stronger than what came before.

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Hope he's right... about saving US education from itself...

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2014

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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 educational complex. It's quick and concise, but packed with documented info and keen insights. The response he got from his dean, when he mentioned that he hadn't gotten as much flak as expected, was enlightening. "Everybody knows there's a problem; they just don't want to talk about it because they don't know what to do about it, and they're afraid of what they might have to do if they did."

We're in uncharted territory here but, as the author says (with attribution), something that can't go on forever, won't. He doesn't offer a one size prescription, but acknowledges that there will be many possible solutions, based on the needs of the kid and resources of the parent. And now there are a much wider array of tools and resources available to us all. With apologies to Homer, I, for one, welcome our brave new school.

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Mark

More than enough info.

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2014

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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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QuiteContrary

Succinct and incisive look at the problems and hope for the future

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2018

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Succinct overview of how things got the way they are in American education today, with insightful ideas and answers to the dilemma of what to do about it. If you've read "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" or "The Underground History of Education" and wish you could get your family and friends to read one of those tombs but know they won't, but they might be willing to read something much shorter, this is your book. If you read this and want more, read those.

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