Thernstrom, The Other Bostonians (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1973), Chapters 5, 9.
38 See Alan Macrobert, “The Unfairness of It All,” Vermont Vanguard Press,
September 30, 1984, 12-13; Alfie Kohn, You Know What They Say... (New
York: HarperCollins, 1990), 38-39; Heilbroner, “Lifting the Silent
Depression,” 6; Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk, Uneven Tides (New
York: Sage, 1993).
39 Mantsios, “Class in America,” 56.
40 Deborah L. Brezina, “Critique of Life and Liberty” (np, n.d., typescript,
distributed by Mel Gabler’s Educational Research Analysts, 1993), 2.
41 Frances FitzGerald, America Revised (New York: Vintage, 1979), 108-9.
42 David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot, “Conflict and Consensus in American
Public Education,” Daedalus 110, no. 2 (Summer 1981): 1-25, found that
economic inequality is typically justified by the twin notions of meritocracy
and equality of opportunity.
43 FitzGerald, America Revised, 109. The Gablers and their allies repeatedly
make the same criticism; see Brezina, “Critique of Life and Liberty,” 2.
44 McNeil, “Defensive Teaching and Classroom Control,” 125.
45 A paragraph titled “A Permanent Class of Poor Workers” in The American
Way and another in The American Pageant are exceptions.
46 Survey data from Verba and Orren, Equality in America, 72-75.