John Marsh has written a fine book on education. He recently did an interview with Inside Higher Education.Read it at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/07/26/new_book_on_why_education_can_t_solve_poverty_and_inequality I served as editor for the book. It is available from Monthly Review Press. It is well written and argued and pretty much destroys thenotion that more education is the most important solution to poverty and inequality.