He is best known for his books Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, and The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling, which is sometimes considered to be his magnum opus. Il est l'auteur du classique alternatif Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (Nous abêtir : le programme caché de l'école obligatoire), son œuvre principale étant The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling (L'histoire souterraine de l'éducation américaine : l'enquête approfondie d'un instituteur sur les problèmes de la scolarité moderne).
