#INSURMOUNTABLE OBSTACLES FREE#
Neoconservatism & successful conservative think-tank effort since 1973 to sell the free market and critique of big government (Blyth, 2002, 156-161).Public education carries too much of the weight (Hochschild & Scovronick, 1995 Rothstein ‘Out of Balance,’ 2002).America’s individualism and anemic welfare state.
Fueled later rise of Neoconservative movement.Criticism of public agencies, their lack of a ‘bottom line’ and accountability.Kenneth Arrow (1951) Anthony Downs (1957) Milton Friedman (1962) Buchanan & Tullock (1962).Free market and rational choice theory critiques of big government and public bureaucracies.
Efforts toward the ‘reform of a reform’ (Tyack).Legacy of Progressives’ model of public education.Mark Blyth, Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century (2002).Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) "The real difficulty in changing any enterprise lies not in developing new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” - John Maynard Keynes.Sooner or later, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.” - John Maynard Keynes (1936) IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES MATTER “Madmen in authority,who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” Indeed, the world isruled by little else. The Origins of Paradigm Shifts “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.What accounts for such remarkable and unanticipated changes?.“That will never happen” often DID happen!.Looking back over my years in the field of education, I’m amazed at the changes that have occurred.Insurmountable Obstacles?The Evolution of Education Policy and Politics in the United States, 1950 to 2007 William Lowe BoydPenn State University Invited Presentation to the Politics of Education Association at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 12, 2007
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