Böcker av Carl L. Bankston

Controls and Choices: The Educational Marketplace and the Failure of School Desegregation provides a detailed examination of the nature of the educational marketplace, supported by historical evidence, to argue that school desegregation failed because it involved monopolistic efforts at redistributing opportunities.

Traces America's faith in the capacity of public education to solve various economic, and political problems civil from before the civil war up to the No Child Left Behind legislation. This book discusses how this faith in education makes it difficult for Americans to think realistically about the capacities and limitations of public schooling.