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Praise for

The Education Apocalypse

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS THE NEW SCHOOL

Mr. Reynolds puts forward a critique of American universities that will ring true to anyone who has attended one recently.

— THE ECONOMIST

While Glenn Reynolds’s book is by no means the first to address these crises and offer solutions, it ranks as one of the best.

— NATIONAL REVIEW

Nobody has been more persistent and perceptive in calling attention to the higher-education bubble. Totally worth a read.

— NICK GILLESPIE, Reason

Reynolds does an important service. During his discussion of higher education reform, he reminds us to think about what a college degree is really for.

— THE WEEKLY STANDARD

It’s a book well worth reading for two reasons: One, it’s a reminder of the endless creativity of free minds in the free market and, two, as Reynolds notes throughout his work, something that can’t go on, won’t.

— THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Many experts will tell you how to pick a college. Few question the system as a whole. With The New School, Glenn Reynolds speaks the truth: individuals must chart for themselves the course of their education and ignore the con men and loan sharks who call themselves academic administrators.

— PETER THIEL

founding CEO of PayPal and co-founder and chairman of Palantir Technologies

Glenn Reynolds, the megablogger better known as Instapundit, is an invaluable fount of information and transmitter of ideas. He was one of the first to identify the higher education bubble that is now bursting all around us. In The New School, he turns his attention to K-12 and shows us how an education system designed to produce docile industrial workers can be transformed into one serving students in the Information Age. Well worth the attention of anyone concerned about America’s future.

— MICHAEL BARONE

Washington Examiner, American Enterprise Institute, co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, and author of Shaping Our Nation: How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics

If you care about the future of higher education, read this book! Glenn Reynolds approaches the topic with an amazing level of insight and wit. The book is spot-on.

— SEBASTIAN THRUN

research professor at Stanford University and co-founder of Udacity

No one keeps a closer eye on colleges and their discontents than Glenn Harlan Reynolds. Some of the best reform ideas pop up first on his great site, Instapundit.

— JOHN LEO

editor of Minding the Campus

Glenn Reynolds has written the best short critique of American education I have ever read. Fact-laden but not dull, entertaining but not frivolous, Reynolds shows that our expensive system of schools delivering dubious outcomes will be fundamentally transformed by economic necessity and consumer frustration, despite the resistance of teacher unions, tenured professors, and others. A tour de force.

— RICHARD VEDDER

director at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity