Rhetoric and reality in critical educational studies in the United States

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Notes

1. I need to openly state that a few of the books I mention in this essay, particularly the books by Anyon and Weis, are in a series that I edit. But since the task I was asked to take on in this essay was to give a sense of the state of critical work in the United States, and these books are important statements about this, I felt that to exclude them would have led to a major silence in such an account.

2. For example, see the debate between E. D. Hirsch Jr. and myself about exactly these issues in Ravitch (2005).