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Essay Review: Higher Aspirations for Higher Education: Is there a “Crisis” in America’s Colleges and Universities? by Aaron Cooley - June 04, 2007There is an almost uncontrollable impulse to allege that present social, cultural, and political organizations and institutions are on the precipice of failure. This impulse has been founded in works ranging from Spengler’s Decline and Fall of the West to much more educationally relevant diatribes such as the infamous A Nation at Risk report. This “crisis” impulse guides intellectual work of all stripes covering the political spectrum of the left and the right, as well as the particularly suspicious advocates of the status quo or middle ground. All of these works usually have in common a brief examination of the history of the institution and, then, a critique of the “nonsense” of the current actions of the organization. In and of itself, this narrative style can be especially useful in framing one’s own views as a legitimate response to a world gone mad. More superficially, these volumes are often just... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Aaron Cooley
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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AARON COOLEY holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has mentored, tutored, and taught students in a diverse range of educational settings. Previously, he worked at the North Carolina General Assembly. His writing has appeared in Educational Studies, Educational Theory, History of Education Quarterly, The Journal of the Philosophy of Education Society, Law and Politics Book Review, and the Political Studies Review. Aaron is dedicated to improving the educational and economic opportunities of all Americans through innovative ideas in public policy.
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