American education, meritocratic ideolog
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Steven Brint; Jerome Karabel
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Article
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1989
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Springer
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English
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This article examines American education in comparative perspective, suggesting that the distinctive structure of the school system is both an embodiment and a source of the felt fluidity of class boundaries in the United States. Several characteristic features of the American educational system are