1st Edition

Contradictions of Control School Structure and School Knowledge

By Linda M. McNeil Copyright 1986

    McNeil traces the poor quality of high school instruction t the tensions between the social control purposes of schooling and the schools' educational goals.

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    Biography

    Linda M McNeil (LMM Technologies, Marin Station, Maryland, USA) (Author)

    "Professor McNeil presents a powerful indictment of the `control' mentality that continues to plague American education--often under the banner of reform." -- Albert Shanker, President, The American Federation of Teachers