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

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ISBN: 9780300078671 | 0300078676
Cover: Trade Paper
Copyright: 4/10/1999

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Getting ahead and getting an education are inseparable in the minds of most Americans. However, educator David Labaree argues that the connection between schooling and social mobility may be doing more harm than good, for the pursuit of educational credentials has come to take precedence over the acquisition of knowledge.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Public Schools for Private Advantage: Conflicting Goals and the Impact on Education	p. 15
The Social Meaning of Student Promotion and Retention	p. 53
Raising Standards in the American High School: Why the Good Old Days Are Not Much Help	p. 75
The Middle Class and the High School	p. 92
The Carnegie Cult of Social Efficiency: An Exceptional Report That Proves the Rule	p. 110
Rethinking the Movement to Professionalize Teaching	p. 129
Career Ladders and the Early Schoolteacher	p. 160
The Rise of the Community College: Markets and the Limits of Educational Opportunity	p. 190
The Lowly Status of Education Schools	p. 223
Schooling Consumers and Consuming the School	p. 250
Notes	p. 263
References	p. 293
Index	p. 313
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How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning : The Credentials Race in American Education

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