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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Class counts
    sub title: education, inequality, and the shrinking middle class
  name:
    name part: Ornstein, Allan C.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 357 pages ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: What the book is about -- About the author -- Introduction -- Historical thoughts of equality and inequality -- Personal comments on inequality -- Poverty expressed through the novel -- The subjective valence -- Good morning America! -- Our Western heritage -- The Greeks -- Greek history and philosophy -- Class and culture -- America: the new Athens, the new Rome -- The fall of Rome -- The future of Pax Americana -- Old history lessons -- Current history lessons -- 1776 and beyond: elitist versus enlightened thought -- Revolutionary icons -- Washington: the nation's leader in war and peace -- Adams: not so liberal -- Madison: a Roman form of government - a republic -- Patrician principles and property rights -- The Tories -- Federalists and Whigs -- The spirit of '76 -- Crossing swords -- Alexander Hamilton: limiting the "mob." -- Thomas Jefferson: natural rights and humanitarianism -- Jefferson and Hamilton yesterday and today -- A final comment -- Patrician influence and social/educational thought -- Worlds apart -- Stretched thin, today -- Economics 101/ education 101 -- The economics of teaching and schooling -- A trip down memory lane -- The promised land -- Pushing ahead -- Geography and "smart" thinking -- Reaffirming the best and brightest -- A change in meritocracy -- Relationship of education to income -- The conservative view -- The liberal view -- A synthesis view -- The call for educational excellence and equity -- Racial and class implications -- What is equality -- The role of education -- Historical perspective -- Educational opportunity -- The winning of the West -- The democratic forces of the West -- Hypothesizing about the past -- The voice of Rousseau -- Shades of blue and gray and black and white -- Social mobility and social structure -- Measures of inequality -- A just society -- Power, privilege, and elite institutions -- A final comment: frankness and fairness -- Education, mobility and the American dream -- Conservative and liberal thought…
  note: Allan Ornstein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Social classes
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Poverty
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Wealth
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Education, Higher
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Middle class
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Elite (Social sciences)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Power (Social sciences)
    geographic: United States
  classification: HN90.S6 O76 2007
  classification: 305.5/50973
  identifier: 9780742547414 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0742547418 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780742547421 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0742547426 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780742547353 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0742547353 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2006030859
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip071/2006030859.html
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      url: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip071/2006030859.html
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 060921
    record change date: 20151104183436.0
    record identifier: in00002231943