How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning

The Credentials Race in American Education

de David F. Labaree · Publicada por primera vez en 1997

David Labaree claims that by thinking of education primarily as the route to individual advancement, we are defining it as a private good - a means of gaining a competitive advantage over other people. He endorses an alternative vision, one that defines education as a public good, providing society with benefits that can be collectively shared - for example, by producing citizens who are politically responsible and workers who are economically productive.