David F. Labaree is a historian of education and Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University.

Works

• A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education (2017)^[1]
• Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling (2010)^[2]
• The Trouble with Ed Schools (2004)^[3]
• How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning: The Credentials Race in American Education (1997)^[4]
• The Making of an American High School: The Credentials Market and the Central High School of Philadelphia, 1838–1939 (1988)^[5]