Egalitarian schooling barely changes income distribution

Evidence

By the early 1970s, a broad spectrum of socialscience opinion was ready to accept the view put forward by Jencks et al. in their highly publicized study, Inequality, that a more egalitarian school system would do little to create a more equal distribution of income or opportunity. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 194

Categorization

• SEED: The Jencks finding — that school equality won’t cure income inequality — is a strong hook for an essay on why education reform keeps being sold as the answer to economic inequality despite decades of contrary evidence.
• XREF: connects to: Schooling is too weak an influence to equalize economic opportunity — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 565; Educational expansion and reduced prejudice have not increased economic opportunity or mobility — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 845; Differentiated schooling reproduces rather than abolishes class divisions (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Differentiated schooling reproduces rather than abolishes class divisions #corroborates (0.86)
• Educational attainment alone cannot close or reverse the racial wealth gap #corroborates (0.78) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 344
• School choice worsens inequality when access prerequisites are unequal #corroborates (0.75) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 957
• Income correlates with education independent of measured cognitive skill #qualifies (0.74) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 1010
• Racial income inequality persists despite near-parity in education #complicates (0.72) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 453
• Schooling replaced the frontier as capitalism’s safety valve for unequal opportunity #expands (0.72) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 177
• Workforce demographics and market concentration shape income distribution independently #corroborates (0.72) — Ken-Hou Lin & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Financialization and U.S. Income…, 171