On the one hand, from queuethe conservative current it began queue management system to be maintained that the realities had not been duly taken into account in the analysis, and that the educational system is not to provide equality but, on the contrary, to create distinctions. The radicals see, for example, Bowler and Gifts,, for their part, pointed out that, in their country, the policies aimed at achieving a better balance between social strata did not yield the expected results. The power of the educational system as an equalizing mechanism was questioned In addition, it was less valid than the assumption that equal opportunities in education led to equal opportunities in life. Other Marxists Finked,, far from considering the greater or lesser impact of education on income generation, have been arguing that the educational system in capitalist society serves the interests of the ruling class and reproduces differences. Of existing classes.
Linked to this position, a very different explanation of the dominant theory about the causes of educational expansion is suggested from this approach according to this vision, the expansion of enrollment from the quantitative point of view and the parallel emergence of the Economics of Education as an ideological construction, evidence the ineffectiveness of classical economics to solve the crisis of chronic unemployment. This change in perceptions about the impact of education was also reflected in the position of some international organizations. In this sense, OECD reports published in the mid- s warned that relative opportunities among races, sex, geographical regions of residence, etc. were not modified by education, despite the expansion and improvement in terms absolute. Likewise, it was argued that educational reforms should be accompanied by others in the social, labor, economic, fiscal, and other dimensions.
