BNW and The Underground History of American Education

I recently came across a book written by an American teacher, former New York City and State Teacher of the Year. The Underground History of American Education is a polemic about compulsory schooling (as opposed to compulsory education), and its claim that schooling is a vast social engineering scheme to keep people in their place, strikes me as uncannily similar to Brave New World. For example,

"In a speech he gave before businessmen prior to the First World War, Woodrow Wilson made this unabashed disclosure: