About David Labaree
Born 1947. David Labaree is an American historian of pedagogy, academic, university teacher, educational theorist, historian and pedagogue.
David F. Labaree is a historian of education and Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University.
Works
A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education (2017) Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling (2010) The Trouble with Ed Schools (2004) How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning: The Credentials Race in American Education (1997) The Making of an American High School: The Credentials Market and the Central High School of Philadelphia, 1838–1939 (1988)
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Who is David Labaree?
historian of education
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David Labaree was born in 1947.
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David Labaree is a historian of pedagogy, academic, university teacher, educational theorist, historian and pedagogue.
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David Labaree is American.
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