Educating inequality : beyond the political myths of higher education and the job market

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = ix
• 1 The Politics of Higher Education = 1
• Class without Class = 1
• The Bipartisan Support of the Education Solution = 4
• The Gold Star Fallacy = 6
• Beyond Political Myths = 9
• 2 College and the Myth of the Good Job = 12
• Degree Deflation = 13
• The Academic Lottery Economy = 13
• The STEM Degree Myth = 15
• Why Politicians Believe in Education Myths = 19
• The Mismatch Myth = 20
• Producing Underemployment = 25
• The Middle-Class Myth = 27
• The Poor Get Poorer through Higher Education = 30
• 3 Why Higher Education Reduces Social Mobility? = 37
• Poor Students with Cadillacs = 38
• How the Private Became Public = 39
• Generating Poverty through Aid = 41
• From Need to Merit = 43
• The Work-Study Myth = 44
• Tax Welfare for the Wealthy = 45
• Ripping Off Vets = 46
• The Myth of Need-Blind Admissions = 47
• Separate and Unequal = 49
• A Fairer Model for Financial Aid = 50
• 4 The Myth of the Fair Meritocracy = 55
• Higher Education's Anti-meritocracy = 55
• Experimenting with Meritocracy = 57
• Rationalizing Inequality = 62
• The Ideology of Meritocracy = 63
• Sorting vs. Learning = 65
• 5 How College Changed Childhood, Education, and Parenting in America = 68
• Beating the Birth Lottery = 68
• The College-Parenting Complex = 69
• Meritocratic Parenting and Educating = 73
• The Culture of Meritocratic Parenting = 89
• 6 Training Undemocratic Capitalists = 101
• Ranking the Rankings = 103
• Doing College = 105
• College Life against Critical Thinking = 107
• Paying for Class = 108
• Drinking Not Thinking = 112
• Joining Exclusivity = 114
• 7 The Death of the Liberal Classroom = 118
• Values vs. Actions = 119
• Institutional Suicide = 120
• Conservative Science = 126
• The Computer Brain = 127
• The Politics of Brain Science = 128
• The Libertarian Web = 130
• Education, the Web, and New Social Darwinism = 131
• Invasion of the Massive Open Online Course = 135
• 8 Will Technology and the Free Market Save Higher Ed and the Job Market? = 142
• Post-recession Massive Open Online Courses = 143
• The Darwinian Innovation Myth = 148
• The Darwinian University = 151
• The MOOC Myth = 154
• The Free Market Solution = 162
• Conclusion - Educating Equality = 167
• Democracy and Capitalism = 168
• Making Higher Education More Democratic and Less Capitalistic = 172
• Index = 177