Why read How Schools Really Matter?

Book cover of How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong

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Most of us assume that public schools in America are unequal--that the quality of the education varies with the location of the school and that as a result, children learn more in the schools that serve mostly rich, white kids than in the schools serving mostly poor, black kids. But…

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1 author picked How Schools Really Matter as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Nate G. Hilger

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I discovered this book after struggling to convince skeptics that schools are by far the most equal part of childhood, not the bastions of inequality most people believe based on misleading news articles and (great) books like Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol. I didn’t seem to make much progress no matter how much data I showed people, so I found it cathartic to hear a top sociologist work through this exact problem in a different way. The book is rigorous but the author writes in a plainspoken, wry style that keeps things lightweight. I already agreed with him and he…

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