By Christopher Jencks
The educational Revolution describes the increase to energy students and scientists, first in America's major universities and now within the better society in addition. with no trying a full-scale historical past of yank greater schooling, it outlines a thought approximately its improvement and current prestige. it really is illustrated with firsthand observations of a wide selection of schools and universities the rustic over-colleges for the wealthy and schools for the upwardly cellular; schools for vocationally orientated males and schools for intellectually and socially orientated girls; faculties for Catholics and schools for Protestants; schools for blacks and faculties for rebellious whites.
The authors additionally examine the various revolution's results. They see it as intensifying clash among old and young, and galvanizing adolescents raised in permissive, middle-class houses to assaults at the legitimacy of grownup authority. within the technique, the revolution subtly reworked the types of labor to which proficient teenagers aspire, contributing to the decline of entrepreneurship and the increase of professionalism. They finish that mass better schooling, for all its merits, has had no measurable impact at the fee of social mobility or the measure of equality in American society.
Jencks and Riesman should not nostalgic; their description of the nineteenth-century liberal arts faculties is corrosively serious. they preserve that American scholars understand greater than ever prior to, that their academics are extra powerfuble and stimulating than in past occasions, and that the yankee approach of upper schooling has introduced the yankee humans to an exceptional point of educational competence. yet whereas they regard the tutorial revolution as having been an traditionally invaluable and revolutionary step, they argue that, like several revolutions, it might probably eat its young children. For Jencks and Riesman, educational professionalism is an enhance over beginner gentility, yet they warn of its hazards and boundaries: the elitism and vanity implicit in meritocracy, the myopia that derives from a strictly educational view of human adventure and realizing, the complacency that comes from making technical competence an finish instead of a means.
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This creates cumulative pressures for meritocracy, since even if an employer wanted to discriminate he would have a hard time finding channels that made this easy for him. sly remain both in recruitment and training-and ,in judgments about the appropriateness of people for specific 16 There are some exceptions. Law schools admit brilliant students they expect will do well in law school even if they do not plan to practice law, but medical schools take a narrower view. D. In most graduate admissions committees there is also a residual bias against girls, and in the past few years a bias in favor of Negroes.
Places, Still, the more energetic and competent undergraduate teachers generally want their students to go on to "good" graduate schools and steer ·them away from the more anemiC: ones, including the home institution ~;tt times. uced by men at the less ·visible places. 24 THE ACADE:MIC REVOLUTION more academic work than was common in the traditional terminal colleges. This external threat has been re-enforced in recent years by changes in the mass media's portrait of established national institutions.
If· there is strong internal pressure for a given course of action, they are likely to go along. They· are also more likely than they once were to delegate authority to the college administration, either de jure or de facto. In part this is· ·because the complexity of the University has increased, so that lay trUstees feel~ less competent to deal with its affairs on a one-day-a-month basis. s rather than clergymen, and ·can therefore claim apparently relevant "'hut esoteric expertise which other board>me:rribers lack This gives the president a certain authority vis ra vis his board which was ·less common before the professionalization of academic work.
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