Volume 22, Number 19 · November 27, 1975
School's Out
By Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Half the House
by Herbert Kohl
Dutton, 269 pp., $7.95
Being with Children
by Phillip Lopate
Doubleday, 392 pp., $7.95
The Myth of the Hyperactive Child and other Means of Child Control
by Peter Schrag, by Diane Divoky
Pantheon, 285 pp., $10.00
Every year it gets a little harder to write about the schools as if they might be improved. So far as I know, very few people do so any more unless they have some gimmick to sell for the purpose—often enough, as the Schrags make horrifyingly clear in their book, a device or procedure that turns out to be nothing but a new technology for making unruly juveniles behave more submissively. Those of us who, like Herb Kohl, began years ago to criticize the schools have gone on to more inclusive issues, not through despair but because we have usually come to see the processes and apparatus of public education as epiphenomena of deeper forms of social oppression which it is the schools' function to support.
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