Book Review: How School Really Matters (and how Analytics Wins Every Argument)
Andrew White
MAY 19, 2021
How School Really Matters, Douglas B. Downey, University of Chicago Press, 2020. The sub title of this book is “Why our assumptions about school and inequality is mostly wrong”. This tells you the real focus of the book and it’s a short (159 pages with appendix and notes), concise study looking at educational attainment but using data from outside school age, that leads one to pause and question the widely accepted positions.
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