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The Education Myth : How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy
Author
Title
The Education Myth : How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy / Jon Shelton.
ISBN
9781501768156
9781501768163
9781501768149
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (270 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"Focusing on the era from the New Deal through the present, this book tells the story of how politicians, intellectuals, and other leaders in the United States emphasized investment in education through human capital at the expense of broader social democratic policies such as a jobs guarantee, union rights, and a robust social safety net"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Series
Histories of American education
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?
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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