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By W. Norton Grubb
"In this hard-hitting heritage of ""the gospel of education,"" W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson display the attract, and the fallacy, of the longstanding American religion that extra education for extra humans is the therapy for all our social and fiscal problems--and that the critical goal of schooling is place of work instruction. yet do expanding degrees of schooling correctly symbolize the calls for of state-of-the-art jobs? Grubb and Lazerson argue that the talents built in colleges and universities and the advantage required in paintings are usually mismatched--since many american citizens are under-educated for critical paintings whereas at the least a 3rd are over-educated for the roles they carry. the continued race for private development and the point of interest on employee instruction have squeezed out civic schooling and studying for its personal sake. mockingly, the point of interest on education as a mechanism of fairness has strengthened social inequality. The problem now, the authors express, is to create environments for studying that comprise either monetary and civic targets, and to avoid the additional descent of schooling right into a preoccupation with slim paintings talents and empty credentials."