Argues that discipline and control over students are the primary criteria of success, and genuine learning is sacrificed to a contemporary educational militarism. This book asks "how will society be able to solve its most pressing problems?". It also proposes innovative approaches to get schools back on track.

In "Against Schooling", Stanley Aronowitz passionately raises an alarm about the current state of education in our country. Discipline and control over students, Aronowitz argues, are now the primary criteria of success, and genuine learning is sacrificed to a new educational militarism. In an age where school districts have imposed testing, teachers must teach to test, and both teacher and student are robbed of their autonomy and creativity. The crisis extends to higher education, where all but a few elite institutions are becoming increasingly narrowly focused and vocational in their teaching. With education lacking opportunity for self-reflection on broad social and historical dynamics, "Against Schooling" asks "how will society be able to solve its most pressing problems?" Aronowitz proposes innovative approaches to get schools back on track.

Introduction
Part I: Education and Social Class
Chapter 1: How Class Works in Education
Chapter 2: Against Schooling
Chapter 3: Reflections on Education: The World Turned Upside Down-Again
Part II: Higher Education or Higher Training?
Chapter 4: Higher Education as a Public Good
Chapter 5: Adjunct Labor: Subaltern in Paradise
Chapter 6: Academic Unionism and the Future of Higher Education
Chapter 7: Should Academic Unions Get Involved in School Governance
Chapter 8: The Decline of Labor Education
Part III: Toward Educational Renewal
Chapter 9: Gramsci and Education
Chapter 10: Paulo Freire's Radical Democratic Humanism.