Linda Ann’s Reviews > Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life > Status Update

“Liberal strategies for achieving economic equality have been bad on a fundamental misconception of the historical evolution of the educational system. Education over the years has never been a potent force for economic equality.” 

This sentiment is mirrored in Ewing’s original sins, Ranita Ray’s Slow Violence, Lareau’s Unequal Childhoods and so many other ethnographies.