Class Dismissed
Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality
Published on 1. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-58367-243-3 (ISBN)
Description
When educational programs prove ineffective at reducing inequality, the ones whom these programs were intended to help end up blaming themselves. Marsh debunks the myth that growing poverty and inequality in the United States can be solved through education.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
306 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58367-243-3 (9781583672433)
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07/2011
Monthly Review Press
€16.49
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Person
John Marsh is associate professor of English at Penn State University. He is the author of two previous books: Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way out of Inequality and Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry. Marsh is also the editor of You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife and daughter.