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Praise for The Education Apocalypse PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS THE NEW SCHOOL Mr. Reynolds puts forward a critique of American universities that will ring true to anyone who has attended one recently. — THE ECONOMIST While Glenn Reynolds’s book is by no means the first to address these crises and offer solutions, it ranks as one of the best. — NATIONAL REVIEW Nobody has been more persistent and perceptive in calling attention to the higher-education bubble. Totally worth a read. — NICK GILLESPIE, Reason Reynolds does an important service. During his discussion of higher education reform, he reminds us to think about what a college degree is really for. — THE WEEKLY STANDARD It’s a book well worth reading for two reasons: One, it’s a reminder of the endless creativity of free minds in the free market and, two, as Reynolds notes throughout his work, something that can’t go on, won’t. — THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Many experts will tell you how to pick a college. Few question the system as a whole. With The New School, Glenn Reynolds speaks the truth: individuals must chart for themselves the course of their education and ignore the con men and loan sharks who call themselves academic administrators. — PETER THIEL founding CEO of PayPal and co-founder and chairman of Palantir Technologies Glenn Reynolds, the megablogger better known as Instapun- dit, is an invaluable fount of information and transmitter of ideas. He was one of the first to identify the higher education bubble that is now bursting all around us. In The New School, he turns his attention to K-12 and shows us how an education system designed to produce docile industrial workers can be transformed into one serving students in the Information Age. Well worth the attention of anyone concerned about America’s future. — MICHAEL BARONE Washington Examiner, American Enterprise Institute, co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, and author of Shaping Our Nation: How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics If you care about the future of higher education, read this book! Glenn Reynolds approaches the topic with an amazing level of insight and wit. The book is spot-on. — SEBASTIAN THRUN research professor at Stanford University and co-founder of Udacity No one keeps a closer eye on colleges and their discontents than Glenn Harlan Reynolds. Some of the best reform ideas pop up first on his great site, Instapundit. — JOHN LEO editor of Minding the Campus Glenn Reynolds has written the best short critique of Amer- ican education I have ever read. Fact-laden but not dull, entertaining but not frivolous, Reynolds shows that our expensive system of schools delivering dubious outcomes will be fundamentally transformed by economic necessity and con- sumer frustration, despite the resistance of teacher unions, tenured professors, and others. A tour de force. — RICHARD VEDDER director at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE The Education Apocalypse HOW IT HAPPENED AND HOW TO SURVIVE IT GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS ENCOUNTER BOOKS NEW YORK · LONDON © 2014, 2015 by Glenn Harlan Reynolds Preface © 2015 by Glenn Harlan Reynolds All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Encounter Books, 900 Broadway, Suite 601, New York, New York, 10003. First American edition published in 2014 by Encounter Books, an activity of Encounter for Culture and Education, Inc., a nonprofit, tax exempt corporation. Encounter Books website address: www.encounterbooks.com Manufactured in the United States and printed on acid-free paper. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO 39.48–1992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper). FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED IN 2015. PAPERBACK EDITION ISBN: 978-1-59403-791-7 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGUED THE HARDCOVER AS FOLLOWS: Reynolds, Glenn H. The education apocalypse: how it happened and how to survive it / Glenn Harlan Reynolds. pages cm Originally published in hardback in 2014 as: The new school : how the information age will save American education from itself. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-59403-710-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-59403-711-5 (ebook) 1. Public schools—United States. 2. Educational change—United States. 3. Education—Effect of technological innovations on. I. Title. LA217.2.R495 2014 370.973—dc23 2013033387 CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments · vii IN THE BEGINNING From the 1st Century and Before to the 21st · 1 HIGHER EDUCATION The Bursting Bubble · 13 EDUCATION From “Higher” to “Lower” · 63 SOME QUASI-PREDICTIONS · 89 SOME CONCLUDING THOUGHTS · 97 Afterword · 103 Notes · 105 Index · 121
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