Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality

Julian Betts of University of California, San Diego reviews “Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality” by Thurston Domina, Andrew M. Penner, and Emily K. Penner. The EconLit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the production, adaptation, and enactment of categories in US schools, focusing on how this categorization is essential to the education system and promotes inequalities within it.”