{"id":25129,"date":"2014-04-13T10:48:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T15:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25129"},"modified":"2014-04-13T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T15:48:23","slug":"reason-tv-glenn-reynolds-on-the-future-of-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/13\/reason-tv-glenn-reynolds-on-the-future-of-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Reason.tv<\/em> &#8211; Glenn Reynolds on the Future of Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9AuR1y1gi80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 10 Apr 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of a weird thing that&#8217;s happened with American society \u2014 this idea that you have to have a college degree to be a respectable member of the middle class,&#8221; says Glenn Reynolds, professor of law at the University of Tennessee and purveyor of the popular <em>Instapundit<\/em> blog. Reynolds&#8217; latest work, <em>The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education From Itself<\/em>, looks at the higher education bubble and how parents, students, and educators can remake the education system.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds sat down with <em>Reason TV<\/em>&#8216;s Alexis Garcia to discuss why Americans are spending more for a college education and how students are responding to increasing tuition costs. &#8220;Given how expensive it is to go to college, there has to be a return sufficient to make it worth the time and especially the money,&#8221; Reynolds states. &#8220;You&#8217;re seeing declining enrollment in some schools and you&#8217;re seeing much more price resistance on the part of both parents and students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The discussion also includes Reynolds&#8217; take on school choice, the upcoming elections, the current state of the blogosphere, and whether or not both political parties are necessary. Nearly a decade after Reynolds published <em>An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths<\/em>, the blogfather still remains optimistic about technology&#8217;s ability to empower the individual and inspire grassroots movements. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 10 Apr 2014 &#8220;It&#8217;s kind of a weird thing that&#8217;s happened with American society \u2014 this idea that you have to have a college degree to be a respectable member of the middle class,&#8221; says Glenn Reynolds, professor of law at the University of Tennessee and purveyor of the popular Instapundit blog. Reynolds&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,79,28],"tags":[71,764],"class_list":["post-25129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-economics","category-education","category-media","tag-debt","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6xj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25130,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25129\/revisions\/25130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}