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The Education Gospel : The Economic Power of Schooling.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (335 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674037984
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Education GospelDDC classification:
  • 338.4/737
LOC classification:
  • LC66
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Believers and Dissenters -- 1. Transforming the High School -- 2. Professionalism in Higher Education -- 3. Dilemmas of the Community College -- 4. Second Chances in Job Training and Adult Education -- 5. The American Approach to Vocationalism -- 6. The Public and Private Benefits of Schooling -- 7. The Ambiguities of Separating Schooling and Work -- 8. The Evolution of Inequality -- 9. Vocationalism and the Education Gospel in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: In this hard-hitting history of "the gospel of education," W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson reveal the allure, and the fallacy, of the longstanding American faith that more schooling for more people is the remedy for all our social and economic problems--and that the central purpose of education is workplace preparation.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Believers and Dissenters -- 1. Transforming the High School -- 2. Professionalism in Higher Education -- 3. Dilemmas of the Community College -- 4. Second Chances in Job Training and Adult Education -- 5. The American Approach to Vocationalism -- 6. The Public and Private Benefits of Schooling -- 7. The Ambiguities of Separating Schooling and Work -- 8. The Evolution of Inequality -- 9. Vocationalism and the Education Gospel in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- References -- Index.

In this hard-hitting history of "the gospel of education," W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson reveal the allure, and the fallacy, of the longstanding American faith that more schooling for more people is the remedy for all our social and economic problems--and that the central purpose of education is workplace preparation.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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