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Politics and education

Schoolhouse Crock

by Peter Schrag,

Fifty years of blaming America’s educational system for our stupidity

Against school

by John Taylor Gatto,

How public education cripples our kids, and why

Achievement test

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The opening of American minds

by Richard Rorty,

The rise of the verbal class

by Joseph Epstein,

The counting house of academe

by Ronnie Dugger,

The Functions of a Teacher

by Bertrand Russell,

Teachers and controversial questions

by Alexander Meiklejohn,

An excuse for universities

by Gerald W. (Gerald White) Johnson,

Forces that control the schools

by Howard K. (Howard Kennedy) Beale,

The university in a time of change

by James Rowland Angell,

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