jocelyn’s Reviews > Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities > Status Update

“Schools are places that mold ideas, that, through a variety of ways, in a so-called hidden curriculum, reward us for seemingly appropriate ideas and behaviors and punish others. Schools do more than teach. They control access to jobs, sort people into groups, attempt to control what we think and say, attach privilege to some and not to others, and, via these activities, perpetuate school inequalities...”