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Open Fear. What caused the nosedive? For one thing, investors were not quite so sanguine as some of the professional forecasters about the nation's economic welfare. Many investors suspected that the new freedom of Phase III would end up in a new round of inflation. Lee Silberman, a vice president at Shearson, Hammill & Co., somberly says: "I think the public does not believe Phase III will work...
...corroborated by work done in the economics of education by people like Herbert Gintis, lecturer in Education, and by Samuel Bowles, associate professor. These two have demonstrated how little secondary education changes economic relations, particularly as reflected in income distribution. It is further seen in work like Charles Silberman's Crisis in the Classroom how much sketchier high school reform is both in theory and in practice...
...IRWIN A. SILBERMAN...
Basically Herndon is in desperate agreement with John Holt, George Dennison, Jonathan Kozol, Edgar Friedenburg, Charles Silberman & Co. that U.S. schools are too foolishly over-administered to successfully nurture either reading and writing or the ability to cope humanely with the complex choices of modern life. But unlike most apocalyptic critics, Herndon sees no easy solution. He proceeds, moreover, by meandering parable rather than polemic, and uses a ruefully genial tone of voice that might have come from Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut. As a result, he is just about the only education reformer alive whose writing could...
Crisis in the Classroom, by Charles Silberman. A massive, thoughtful inquiry into U.S. schools concludes that education is almost always sacrificed to order and discipline...