Author: Sowell, Thomas

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Review entitled The Emperor has No Clothes by Laurie Barton of the book Inside American Education: The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas [New York, NY: The Free Press, 1993,
303 p.].

A penetrating and comprehensive criticism of the educational establishment. Amidst the turbidity of educational debate, it provides a bracing splash of cold reason. Although its broad overview does not focus on arts education specifically, many of the issues discussed are closely inter-related with the concerns of the arts education community. The book is an excellent resource for policy discussions and development and offers provocative analysis of the many ills besetting education. Sowell adeptly dismantles many of the familiar arguments for multiculturalism, racial quotas, values clarification, various administrative policies, and other educational practices, and in so doing he exposes the deceptions and dogmas that have insulated these practices from accountability. (p. 39)

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Categories: Arts Education