Literature Review Blog #2

Evers, Jelmer, and René Kneyber. 
Flip theSystem: Changing Education from the Ground Up. , 2016. Print.

Summary: 

Discusses the education and teachers worldwide. As neoliberealistic practices take over education systems, the standardization of curriculum is enforced. The question of whether teachers are puppets of the effects of standardization is address. Flip the System is about restoring that sense and placing teachers in the areas and mentality where it matters the most.

Jelmer Evers and Rene Kneyber: Jelmer Evers is a teacher, a writer, and an innovator who studied the history of international relations and a teacher in a bilingual and international teacher program.

Rene Kneyber is a mathematics teacher in Holland and wrote several books on the assessment in education policy.

Key Terms: Define two key terms or concepts in the piece

1. Neoliberalism: In this case of higher education, it is acting more towards consumerism rather than serving a public good
2. Standardization: process of making assessment to be used as norm.

Quotes:

"Series of similar policies and measures have been unleashed in all developed countries to both measure and maximize educational output using managerial tactics and techniques in order to address this question." (Evers, Kneyber 3)

"...harmonization of curricula and standarization of tests and test practices have become a rather dominant means of making systemms 'transparent' and hence, comparable."(Evers, Kneybe 4).

"In many a cshool in the USA< Sweden and the Netherlands, teachers spend so much time administering their education, that they lack sufficient time to actually educate."(Evers, Kneybe 5).

Flip The System, in the brief excerpt that I read, gave me a different perspective of looking at the ways that can be used to determine the effectiveness of higher education whether it is in the form of standardized tests or other means.