- Aims and objectives, Education, Evaluation, Évaluation
Our educational establishment -- a vast tax-supported empire existing quasi-independently within American society -- is morally and intellectually bankrupt, charges distinguished economist and social critic Thomas Sowell.
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- Author
- Thomas Sowell
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Maxwell Macmillan, Free Press, Maxwell Macmillan International
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743254083
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“VIRTUALLY EVERYONE has heard how poorly American students perform, whether compared to foreign students or to American students of a generation ago.”
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