Decline in Educational Standards (eBook)

From a Public Good to a Quasi-Monopoly

James D. Williams (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
304 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-4138-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Offers a detailed, pragmatic discussion of potential steps to reverse the decline in educational standards.

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The Decline in Educational Standards: From a Public Good to a Quasi-Monopoly is about the ';commodification' of education and the factors that have changed education from a public good into a ';commodity' over the last 50 years. When we look at today's education, we see that academic standards in public education have been declining for decades even as education funding has reached nearly a trillion dollars per year to fund such failed programs as No Child Left Behind and Common Core. Simultaneously, tuition and fees at public universities have increased nearly 2000 percent over the last 30 years, and student loan debt is now a staggering $1.5 trillion. Quite simply, education has become big business.This book examines the various issues associated with the commodification of education, especially neoliberalism and privatized Keynesianismwhat they are, how they developed, and how they have affected education and public policy. It argues that neoliberalism and the related socioeconomic shift to ';debt-based consumerism' are at the center of commodification, leading to a significant decline in the exchange value of a college degree. It also argues that we cannot understand the changes in our public and higher education systems without examining the historical, social, economic, and political factors that have essentially created an education system that is significantly different from what it was in the not so distant past.

Autor

James D. Williams holds a doctorate in rhetoric and linguistics from the University of Southern California and has published more than a dozen books on education, linguistics, and rhetoric. He has held faculty positions at UCLA, The University of Southern California, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is a founding faculty member at Soka University in California.

Inhalt

AcknowledgementsIntroduction Section I: Economics and NeoliberalismChapter 1: Liberalism and Conservatism: Some Characteristics Chapter 2: The Industrial RevolutionChapter 3: Socialist Stirrings Chapter 4: John Maynard Keynes and Economic Theory Chapter 5: The Great Depression Chapter 6: Kynesian Economics and The Road to Serfdom Chapter 7: The 1970s Inflation Chapter 8: Debt-Based Consumer Capitalism and Taxation Chapter 9: Debt-Based Consumerism and a Mountain of DebtChapter 10: Too Big to FailSection II: What Happened to Public Education? Chapter 11: The Common School Movement Chapter 12: Meeting the Educational Needs in a Diverse SocietyChapter 13: Intelligence TestingChapter 14: Academic Tracking Chapter 15: Criticisms of IQ Testing and Tracking Chapter 16: The Effects of the Proximate Environment on IQ and Academic Performance Chapter 17: The Commodification of EducationChapter 18: Federal Control Through Federal Funding Chapter 19: Parental Satisfaction and Student Performance Chapter 20: Charter Schools, Vouchers, and Politics School Vouchers Chapter 21: How Did We Get Here?Chapter 22: Following the Money Section III: Higher Education as a Quasi-Monopoly Chapter 23: Education and the End of Poverty Chapter 24: Higher Education in a Privatized-Keynesian WorldChapter 25: The Democratization of Higher Education Chapter 26: The Gainful Employment Rule and Tacit CollusionChapter 27: Declining Public Confidence and the Politicized Faculty Section IV: Improving Public and Higher Education Chapter 28: Neoliberalism, Priviatized Keynesianism, and the Debt BombChapter 29: Rethinking Public Education Chapter 30: Egalitarianism and the Drive for Equal Outcomes Chapter 31: Reforming the Nation’s Education System

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 28 Illustrations including: - 23 Black & White Illustrations; - 5 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Affirmative Action • Conservatism • debt-based consumerism • Education system • Neoliberalism • Privatized Keynesianism • The Great Depression • the Industrial Revolution
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-4138-8 / 1475841388
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-4138-1 / 9781475841381