The Education Gospel

The Economic Power of Schooling

Marvin Lazerson

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$31.00 • £26.95 • €28.95

ISBN 9780674025455

Publication Date: 09/15/2007

Short

334 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

1 line illustration, 7 tables

World

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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

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