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Some of the things the Jencks recommends to alleviate economic inequality are progressive taxation, income maintenance, direct government regulation of wages, and tax incentives to employers for equalizing waged.
In 1967, at the close of the Johnson Administration, Jencks was brought to Cambridge dean of the School of Education. Jencks brought with him a sketchy outline of a best he had done a great deal of thinking about, The Limits of Schooling. Once in Cambridge. Jencks set up Harvard...
BUT DESPITE HIS "radicalization" Jencks remains coolly pragmatic about the solutions to economic inequality. "I've always had the idea that if you want to get rid of poverty the best way to do it is to give people money. If you want to solve some other problem like the...
But Jencks is not optimistic about the possibility for reform of radical changes. The educational institutions of America have too firm a grasp on the peoples' minds, and the political climate in the country is not ripe for dramatic change. Nevertheless, Jencks sets forth the conditions he feel are necessary...
Both Jencks and Inequality are iconoclasts. Because he attacks almost every sacred cow in education and "ecommends politically radical solutions, the book is sure to cause mounting controversy. Inequality is bound to have some effect on the upcoming presidential election as both sides cite the portions of the research that...