Schooling in a corporate society
Subtitle: the political economy of education in America.
Series: Educational policy, planning, and theory
Publisher: McKay
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Educational sociology -- United States; Educational equalization -- United States
Description: Essays by educators and economists, asserting that the American educational system promotes the interests of elite groups in preserving the status quo.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The channeling colony, by M. Raskin.; title: Unequal education and the reproduction of the social division of labor, by S. Bowles.; title: Economic theories of racism, by M. Reich.; title: Job discrimination and education, by P. Blair.; title: Rational income decisions of Blacks and everybody else, by  S. Michelson.; title: The case for "equal opportunity," by T. Ribich.; title: The political economy of public school finance, by S. Michelson.; title: Is compensatory education possible? By M. Carnoy.; title: The case for community control of schools, by H. Levin.; title: The rise of the "free shcool," by B. B. Stretch.; title: Political knowledge and experience in elementary education, by P. Brennar.; title: Education vouchers: a proposal for diversity and choice, by J. Areen and C. Jencks.; title: Why we must disestablish school, by I. Illich.; title: Education and socialist man in Cuba, by S. Bowles.