Author: Jon SonsteliePublisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN: 1582130345
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
School Finance and California's Master Plan for Education
Author: Jon SonsteliePublisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN: 1582130345
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Education & the Environment
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental education
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Unmaking the Public University
Author: Christopher NewfieldPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674060369
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
An essential American dream—equal access to higher education—was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after World War II. But this vital American promise has been broken. Christopher Newfield argues that the financial and political crises of public universities are not the result of economic downturns or of ultimately valuable restructuring, but of a conservative campaign to end public education’s democratizing influence on American society. Unmaking the Public University is the story of how conservatives have maligned and restructured public universities, deceiving the public to serve their own ends. It is a deep and revealing analysis that is long overdue. Newfield carefully describes how this campaign operated, using extensive research into public university archives. He launches the story with the expansive vision of an equitable and creative America that emerged from the post-war boom in college access, and traces the gradual emergence of the anti-egalitarian “corporate university,” practices that ranged from racial policies to research budgeting. Newfield shows that the culture wars have actually been an economic war that a conservative coalition in business, government, and academia have waged on that economically necessary but often independent group, the college-educated middle class. Newfield’s research exposes the crucial fact that the culture wars have functioned as a kind of neutron bomb, one that pulverizes the social and culture claims of college grads while leaving their technical expertise untouched. Unmaking the Public University incisively sets the record straight, describing a forty-year economic war waged on the college-educated public, and awakening us to a vision of social development shared by scientists and humanists alike.
The Dream Is Over
Author: Simon MarginsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520292847
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan’s equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world’s leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and has had great influence in the rapid growth of universities in China and East Asia. Yet, remarkably, the political conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated. Universal access is faltering, public tuition is rising, the great research universities face new challenges, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags far behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr’s vision be renewed?
Higher Education and Silicon Valley
Author: W. Richard ScottPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421423081
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
"Universities and colleges often operate between two worlds: higher education and economic systems. It is impossible to understand how current developments are affecting colleges without attending to the changes in both the higher education system and in the economic communities in which they exist. W. Richard Scott, Michael W. Kirst, and colleagues focus on the changing relations between colleges and companies in one vibrant economic region: the San Francisco Bay Area. Colleges and tech companies, they argue, have a common interest in knowledge generation and human capital, but they operate in social worlds that substantially differ, making them uneasy partners. Colleges are a part of a long tradition that stresses the importance of precedent, academic values, and liberal education. High-tech companies, by contrast, value innovation and know-how, and they operate under conditions that reward rapid response to changing opportunities. The economy is changing faster than the postsecondary education system." -- From the cover.
The Rising State
Author: Bonnie C. FusarelliPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791477118
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Examines how federal and state governments have assumed ever-greater control over the education process since the 1960s.
Resources in Education
Author: Higher Education in California
Author: Hans P. JohnsonPublisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Research in Education
Author: Evaluation of Educable Mentally Retarded Programs in California
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights. California Advisory CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children with mental disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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