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The Education Gospel - The Economic Power of Schooling (Paperback)
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Do you want your children to succeed? Do you want to reduce poverty
and to create a good society? Do you want the U.S. to be
competitive internationally, and to meet the challenges of the
Knowledge Revolution? Then education must be the answer. Or is it?
This critical history of the Education Gospel reveals the
allure-and the fallacy-of the longstanding American faith that more
schooling for more people, to develop occupational skills, is the
solution to virtually all social and economic problems. Grubb and
Lazerson show how all levels of education were transformed over the
twentieth century into preparation for vocations and professions.
As a result high schools, colleges, universities, short-term job
training, and other forms of "life-long learning" expanded
enormously. But Grubb and Lazerson argue that the promises of the
Education Gospel and the changes of the Knowledge Revolution are
exaggerated. The abilities developed in schooling and the
competencies required at work are often mismatched. At least a
third of all Americans are already over-educated for the jobs they
hold, and little more than 30 percent of jobs in the coming decade
will require some college- hardly justifying College for All. The
drive for personal advancement and workforce preparation has also
squeezed out civic education-not to mention learning for its own
sake. Worst of all, Grubb and Lazerson show, the vocational focus
of schooling has reinforced social inequality. The challenges over
the next century are to create forms of education incorporating
both occupational and civic goals, and to reverse the preoccupation
with narrow work skills, empty credentialism, and schooling as the
only source of salvation. W.Norton Grubb is the David Gardner Chair
of Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley.
Marvin Lazerson is the Howard P. and Judith R. Berkowitz Professor
of Education, Graduate School of Education at the University of
Pennsylvania.
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