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.