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Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality
John Marsh
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Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, figures. BIC Classification: JFFA; JNAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 302. Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality. 328 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFFA; JNAM. Dimension: 213 x 156 x 18. Weight: 306.
In Class Dismissed, John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and inequality in the United States can be solved through education. Using sophisticated analysis combined with personal experience in the classroom, Marsh not only shows that education has little impact on poverty and inequality, but that our mistaken beliefs actively shape the way we structure our schools and what we teach in them. Rather than focus attention on the hierarchy of jobs and power--where most jobs require relatively little education, and the poor enjoy very little political power--money is funneled ... Read more
In Class Dismissed, John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and inequality in the United States can be solved through education. Using sophisticated analysis combined with personal experience in the classroom, Marsh not only shows that education has little impact on poverty and inequality, but that our mistaken beliefs actively shape the way we structure our schools and what we teach in them. Rather than focus attention on the hierarchy of jobs and power--where most jobs require relatively little education, and the poor enjoy very little political power--money is funneled ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781583672433
SKU
V9781583672433
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About John Marsh
John Marsh is associate professor of English at Penn State University. He is the author of two previous books: Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way out of Inequality and Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry. Marsh is also the editor of You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American ... Read more
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