Student debt, social investment in education and the search for a basketful of school
At the Social Science History Association conference this year, there were “author meets critic” sessions on two important books, Kathryn Neckerman’s Schools Betrayed: Roots of Failure in Inner-City Education and Claudia Goldin and Laurence Katz’s The Race between Education and Technology. Together, the two books represent solid new work in understanding urban education (with Neckerman) […]