6 Ways Neoliberal Education Reform May Be Destroying a College Near You

By Owen Davis

October 7, 2013  |  This past August at the State University of New York, Buffalo, President Obama made a familiar offer: “major new reforms,” this time in higher education, “that will shake up the current system.” The New York Times [3] described it as a plan “to shame universities into holding down prices.”

 

Obama’s remarks [4] were an overture to what will become a major campaign to transform higher education through three measures: instituting a ratings system and performance funding for federal student aid; encouraging technological innovation and competition; and mitigating student debt.

If the plan sounds familiar, it’s because they've played this tune before.