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Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling

reviewed by Floyd M. Hammack - November 10, 2010

Title: Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling
Author(s): David F. Labaree
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
ISBN: 0674050681, Pages: 312, Year: 2010
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Floyd Hammack New York University E-mail Author FLOYD M. HAMMACK is Associate Professor of Sociology of Education and Higher Education at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development of New York University. His most recent publications include "Paths to Legislation or Litigation for Educational Privilege: New York and San Francisco Compared." American Journal of Education, 116, 371-395, and "Social Capital, Financial Knowledge, and Hispanic Student College Choice," with Noga O'Connor and Marc A. Scott. Research in Higher Education, 51, 195-219.

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