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eBook
The Education Myth
2023
Overview
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.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Democracy and education -- United States -- History
/ Economic security -- United States -- History
/ EDUCATION & HISTORY OF EDUCATION
/ Education -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History
/ Education -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
/ Education and state -- United States -- History
/ Education-Economic aspects-United States
/ Education-Political aspects-United States
/ employment and public education
/ History
/ history of the Democratic Party
/ Human capital -- United States -- History
/ political divisions in the US
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism
ISBN
150176814X, 9781501768149, 1501768166, 9781501768163, 1501768158, 9781501768156
