Who Can Be Educated?

About the Book

A pioneer in public education, the U.S. has followed a model of separatism, largely determined by class and race, and supported by a supposedly scientific theory of intelligence. Some children receive a “first-class”, although often a stultifying education. The majority are consigned to programs of mediocrity. Dr. Schwebel proposes change: the societal, psychological, educational, and many of the biological factors that determine educability are almost entirely controllable by society.

About the Author

Milton Schwebel, Ph.D. (Columbia University) is former Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University, Associate Dean at New York University’s School of Education and now Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology. He has taught in city, town and rural schools, and at elementary, high school and college levels. A diplomat of the American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology, he has been a consultant to government agencies, school systems, and universities, here and abroad.