How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning: The Credentials Race in American Education

How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning: The Credentials Race in American Education
ISBN-10
0300078676
ISBN-13
9780300078671
Category
Education
Pages
323
Language
English
Published
1997-01-01
Publisher
Yale University Press
Author
David F. Labaree

Description

David Labaree claims that by thinking of education primarily as the route to individual advancement, we are defining it as a private good - a means of gaining a competitive advantage over other people. He endorses an alternative vision, one that defines education as a public good, providing society with benefits that can be collectively shared - for example, by producing citizens who are politically responsible and workers who are economically productive.

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