The Education Apocalypse: How It Happened and How to Survive It - Softcover

Reynolds, Glenn Harlan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594037914 ISBN 13: 9781594037917

Publisher: Encounter Books, 2015

Synopsis

For decades, the U.S. invested ever-growing fortunes into its antiquated K-12 education system in exchange for steadily worse outcomes. At the same time, Americans spent more than they could afford on higher education, driven by the kind of cheap credit that fueled the housing crisis. The graduates of these systems were left unprepared for a global economy, unable to find jobs, and on the hook for student loans they could never repay. Economist Herb Stein famously said that something that can’t go on forever, won’t. In the case of American education, it couldn’t and it didn’t.

In The Education Apocalypse, Glenn Harlan Reynolds explains how American education as we knew it collapsed and how we can all benefit from unprecedented power and freedom in the aftermath. From the advent of online education to the rebirth of forgotten alternatives like apprenticeships, Reynolds shows students, parents, and educators how beyond merely surviving the fallout they can rethink and rebuild American education from the ground up.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1594037914
• ISBN 13: 9781594037917
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136