Class Dismissed Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality

Name: Class Dismissed Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality
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ISBN: 9781583672433

ISBN-10: 1583672435

ISBN-13: 9781583672433

Edition: 2011

Authors: John Marsh

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In Class Dismissed, John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and inequality in the United States can be solved through education. Using sophisticated analysis combined with personal experience in the classroom, Marsh not only shows that education has little impact on poverty and inequality, but that our mistaken beliefs actively shape the way we structure our schools and what we teach in them. Rather than focus attention on the hierarchy of jobs and power--where most jobs require relatively little education, and the poor enjoy very little political power--money is funneled into educational endeavors that ultimately do nothing to…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Publication date: 1/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

John Marsh is associate professor of English at Penn State University. He is the author of two previous books: Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way out of Inequality and Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry . Marsh is also the editor of You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941 . He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife and daughter.