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The Education Trap - Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston (Hardcover)
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The Education Trap - Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston (Hardcover)
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Why-contrary to much expert and popular opinion-more education may
not be the answer to skyrocketing inequality. For generations,
Americans have looked to education as the solution to economic
disadvantage. Yet, although more people are earning degrees, the
gap between rich and poor is widening. Cristina Groeger delves into
the history of this seeming contradiction, explaining how education
came to be seen as a panacea even as it paved the way for deepening
inequality. The Education Trap returns to the first decades of the
twentieth century, when Americans were grappling with the
unprecedented inequities of the Gilded Age. Groeger's test case is
the city of Boston, which spent heavily on public schools. She
examines how workplaces came to depend on an army of white-collar
staff, largely women and second-generation immigrants, trained in
secondary schools. But Groeger finds that the shift to more
educated labor had negative consequences-both intended and
unintended-for many workers. Employers supported training in
schools in order to undermine the influence of craft unions, and so
shift workplace power toward management. And advanced educational
credentials became a means of controlling access to high-paying
professional and business jobs, concentrating power and wealth.
Formal education thus became a central force in maintaining
inequality. The idea that more education should be the primary
means of reducing inequality may be appealing to politicians and
voters, but Groeger warns that it may be a dangerous policy trap.
If we want a more equitable society, we should not just prescribe
more time in the classroom, but fight for justice in the workplace.
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