How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning: The Credentials Race in American Education 

By David F. Labaree (Yale University Press, 1999).

When a book finds permanent lodging in your head, it’s often because the author introduces you to new ways of understanding the world in all its contradictions. At least that’s the case for me, and David Labaree is just such an author. He contemplates complex issues we take for granted as part of everyday life and then writes cogent analyses that illuminate the constituent parts of the problem.

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