Education Myth

How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for instance, public education was championed as a way to help citizens learn how to participate in a democracy. By the 1930s, public education, along with union rights and social security, formed an important component of a broad-based fight for social democracy.Shelton demonstrates that beginning in the 1960s, the political power of the education myth choked off powerful social democratic alternatives like A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin's Freedom Budget. The nation's political center was bereft of any realistic ideas to guarantee economic security and social dignity for the majority of Americans, particularly those without college degrees. Embraced first by Democrats like Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, Republicans like George W. Bush also pushed the education myth. The result, over the past four decades, has been the emergence of a deeply inequitable economy and a drastically divided political system.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-15
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistories of American Education
Antal sidor270
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9781501768149

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Introduction1. From Independence to Security: Education and Democracy from the Nation's Founding2. To Secure These Rights: Education and the Unfinished Project of American Social Democracy3. Education's War on Poverty in the 1960s4. New Politics: Democrats and Opportunity in a Postindustrial Society5. "At Risk": The Acceleration of the Education Myth6. "What You Earn Depends on What You Learn": Education Presidents, Education Governors, and Human Capital Rising7. Putting Some People First: The Total Ascendance of the Education Myth8. Left Behind: The Politics of Education Reform and Rise of the Creative Class9. Things Fall Apart: The Education Myth under AttackEpilogue: A Social Democratic Future?

Given the current intense political divisions, Shelton's analysis is especially timely and, despite appearance, not doctrinaire. The analysis will challenge readers, no matter their political affiliation, to think differently about education and its relationship to "economic security and social respect" (p. ix). Shelton's style is accessible and honest, laying bare his commitments such that readers can determine for themselves how they influence his analysis.(Choice)