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The underground history of American education
a schoolteacher's intimate investigation into the problem of modern schooling
By Gatto, John Taylor
- ISBN
- 978-0-94570-004-3
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford Village Press, 2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2000
Gathering a collection of materials that highlight public education, Gatto (Dumbing Us Down) analyzes why mass-compulsion schooling is unreformable. Having taught in a Manhattan school district from 1961 to 1991, Gatto speaks from experience when offering this speculative history cum personal investigation. His discussion is passionate but far from scholarly (there are a very few footnotes for further study). At first it see...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
