The education myth : how human capital trumped social democracy

The education myth : how human capital trumped social democracy / Jon Shelton.

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...

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Main Author: Shelton, Jon, 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Series:Histories of American education.
Subjects:
Education > Economic aspects > United States > History.
Education > Political aspects > United States > History.
Education and state > United States > History.
Democracy and education > United States > History.
Human capital > United States > History.
Economic security > United States > History.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • From Independence to Security : Education and Democracy from the Nation's Founding
  • To Secure These Rights : Education and the Unfinished Project of American Social Democracy
  • Education's War on Poverty in the 1960s
  • New Politics : Democrats and Opportunity in a Post-industrial Society
  • "At Risk" : The Acceleration of the Education Myth
  • "What you earn depends on what you learn" : Education Presidents, Education Governors, and Human Capital
  • Rising
  • Putting Some People First : The Total Ascendance of the Education Myth
  • Left Behind : The Politics of Education Reform and Rise of the Creative Class
  • Things Fall Apart : The Education Myth under Attack
  • Epilogue : A Social Democratic Future?

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