The decline in educational standards : from a public good to a quasi-monopoly / James D. Williams.
"Offers a detailed, pragmatic discussion of potential steps to reverse the decline in educational standards"--
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Lanham, MD :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Liberalism and conservatism: some characteristics
- The industrial revolution
- Socialist stirrings
- John Maynard Keynes and economic theory
- The Great Depression
- Keynesian economics and the road to serfdom
- The 1970s inflation
- Debt-based consumer capitalism and taxation
- Debt-based consumerism and a mountain of debt
- Too big to fail
- The common school movement
- Meeting the educational needs in a diverse society
- Intelligence testing
- Academic tracking
- Criticisms of IQ testing and tracking
- The effects of the proximate environment on IQ and academic performance
- The commodification of education
- Federal control through federal funding
- Parental satisfaction and student performance
- Charter schools, vouchers, and politics
- How did we get here?
- Following the money
- Education and the end of poverty
- Higher education in a privatized-Keynesian world
- The democratization of higher education
- The gainful employment rule and tacit collusion
- Declining public confidence and the politicized faculty
- Neoliberalism, priviatized Keynesianism, and the debt bomb
- Rethinking public education
- Egalitarianism and the drive for equal outcomes
- Reforming the nation's education system.