Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling
No education scholar in America throws an analytical knuckleball as well as David F. Labaree of Stanford University.--Jay Mathews, Class Struggle Blog in Washington PostIn this new book, Stanford Professor David Labaree offers a bleak reality-check on American public education, explaining that the system itself...is to blame for the failure of education reform.--Remmert Dekker in The Education GadflyLabaree--a vocal skeptic of the American public school system--is no stranger to writing about education. Here, he makes a solid case that American public schools are failing in many ways.--Library Journal"In this important book...the skeptical, contrarian, and cheerfully pessimistic Stanford education professor Labaree trenchantly exposes the true purposes behind...American public schools and explains why the institution can never fulfill the dreams of those who use it or those who attempt to improve it. "