Education: Assumptions versus History: Collected Papers

Thomas Sowell

Hoover Institution Press, May 1, 2017 - Education - 204 pages

In the papers collected in Education: Assumptions versus History, Dr. Thomas Sowell takes a hard look at the state of education in our schools and universities. His imperative is to test the assumptions underlying contemporary educational policies and innovations against the historical and contemporary evidence.

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EDUCATION: Assumptions Versus History: Collected Papers (hoover Inst Press Publication)

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A collection of previously published articles in which the author takes on established notions or "pseudo-ideas" in a way guaranteed to create controversy. He does not accept the current fashions, but ...

About the author

Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among his published works are Basic Economics, Late Talking Children, and Race and Culture. He has also published in both academic journals and the popular media including Newsweek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and 150 newspapers that carry his nationally syndicated column.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Education: Assumptions versus History: Collected Papers
• Author: Thomas Sowell
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press, 2017
• ISBN: 0817981136, 9780817981136
• Length: 204 pages
• Subjects: Education / Essays