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Schooling in Capitalist America  

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  • In 1968, in the midst of national upheaval over social equity and educational authority, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis began work on what would later become Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life. Economists and social theorists, Bowles and Gintis set out to understand the growing body of contradictory evidence regarding the efficacy of educational reform. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Schooling in Capitalist America]

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