Bowles+and+Gintis.++Schooling+in+Capitalist+America

Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. //Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life // . Basic Books, 1976.
Suggests that liberal educational reform is essentially a band-aid solution to serious social problems propagated by our capitalist economy. By linking schooling to the production of workers, B & G insist that any educational reform must be aware of this link and work actively against it in order to have any chance of succeeding. Using statistical studies, they argue that even increased education levels will not alleviate the oppression of minority classes. They highlight the ways that education is used to justify current un-just practices, and insist that reforming education must be a single facet of a multi-faceted change in American society. Even "radical" suggestions such as open enrollment and 'free schools' will fall prey to the integrative function of schooling as a whole (integrating students into the current social and economic structures of the nation) without larger-scale change (such as the change to a socialist system). This work is pretty strictly Marxist, making a place for education within that theoretical system.