Bowles S., Gintis H. Schooling In Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life

Haymarket Books, 2011. — 359 p.Many recent books on education and schooling examine small pieces of the system to suggest improvements--teacher training and practice, assessments, school design and management, and the like. No book has ever taken on the systemic forces at work in modern education systems like Schooling in Capitalist America and suggested that a radical transformation of society is required to improve schools.