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Contradictions of Control

School Structure and School Knowledge

By Linda M. McNeil

Published September 7th 1988 by Routledge – 234 pages

Series: Critical Social Thought

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    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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    "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

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