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Author Warner, W. Lloyd (William Lloyd), 1898-1970, author.

Title Who shall be educated? : the challenge of unequal opportunities / by W. Lloyd Warner, Robert J. Havighurst and Martin B. Loeb.

Publication Info. London : Routledge, 2013.
©1959

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series International library of sociology ; 28
International library of sociology ; 28.
Note Originally published in 1959 by Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Original Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; What This Book is About; Acknowledgements; Chapter I. Learning for Living; A Middle-Glass Boy Learns to be an American; A Lower-class Boy Finds his Place; A Polish Boy Learns to be an American; A Negro Girl is Taught her Place; An Upper-class Boy Learns He is Different; Chapter II. American Status Systems; All Men are Born Equal, but-; Class in Yankee City, Deep South, and Midwest; Class in the Forty-eight States; Chapter III. Social Mobility-Going up and Coming Down; How to Make the Grade.
Talent and Occupational MobilityMobility by Education; Sex and Beauty; The Social Rise of Flora Belle; Chapter IV. The School in the Status System; New Social Responsibilities of Education; The People Turn to Education; How the School Fits In; The Social Functions of the American Educational System; Chapter V. Curricula-Selective Pathways to Success; Class and Curricula; How the Students Make their Selection of Curricula; Who Prepares for College in Hometown; Some High Schools Provide a Single Programme for Youth of All Statuses; A Few High Schools Serve Youth of a Single Status.
Colleges also Fit the Status SystemChapter VI. Status in the Classroom; Class and the Rating of a Child's Ability; How Children Teach Each Other Status Differences; Class and a Child's Reputation; Chapter VII. Social Mobility through Education; Martha from Boxtown; Martha Climbs out of Boxtown; Chapter VIII. Teachers in the Status System; The Social Participation of Teachers; Personality Differences among Teachers; The Social Rôle of the Teacher; Chapter IX. The Administrative Hierarchy; Superintendents and Principals; The School Board; Chapter X. The Negro in the American Caste System.
The American Caste SystemThe Negro Class Order; Negro and White Attitudes to Negro Education; The Negroes get a High School; Class and the P.T.A.; The Negro's Right to Democratic Education; Chapter XI. Who Shall Be Educated?; Making Education Work for Democracy; The Hard Facts; Social Mobility and Social Solidarity; Proposed Educational Programme; Footnotes; Working Bibliography; Index.
Summary First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Subject Education -- United States.
Education.
United States.
Social classes -- United States.
Social classes.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Havighurst, Robert J. (Robert James), 1900-1991, author.
Loeb, Martin B. (Martin Bernard), 1913- author.
Other Form: Print version: William Lloyd Warner, Who Shall Be Educated? Ils 241. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014 9780415177795
ISBN 9781136274312 (electronic book)
1136274316 (electronic book)
9781315008134 (electronic book)
1315008130 (electronic book)
9780415177795