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This volume continues Apple's ``serious critical analysis'' of education from his previous Education and Power (CH, Oct '82) and Ideology and Curriculum (CH, Mar '80). His aim is ``to see education relationally ... as created out of the economic, political and cultural conflicts that have emerged historically in the United States....'' The focus is on gender and class issues. The section on teachers stresses the ``proletarianization and deskilling'' of the teaching profession and its emergence as a female occupation under the domination of male authorities. Three different issues are discussed in the section on texts: (1) the actual books published for students by an industry driven by interest in profits and controlled by men; (2) the recent school reports aimed primarily at school professionals and the general public (Mortimer Adler's Paidea Proposal, 1982, and the contrasting A Nation at Risk, 1983, are each analyzed and found to be inadequate), and (3) the new computer-based technology in the classrooms. Each kind of text is analyzed for the ways in which it bears on issues related to property versus personal rights, and how the dominant groups in our society-men and capital-control education. There are many references to other radical critics of education. A final chapter discusses some recent ``more democratic'' school reforms. Apple is a compelling critic; his writing style is not elegant, but his point of view and well-documented work should be available to all students and faculty who are interested in education. For college and university libraries.-G.E. Hein, Lesley College