The Education Myth questions the idea that Education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity.
The result, over the past four decades, has been the emergence of a deeply inequitable economy and a drastically divided political system..
Bush also pushed the Education myth.
Embraced first by Democrats like Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, Republicans like George W.
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.
Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin\'s Freedom Budget.
Shelton demonstrates that beginning in the 1960s, the political power of the Education myth choked off powerful Social democratic alternatives like A.
By the 1930s, public education, along with union rights and Social security, formed an important component of a broad-based fight for Social democracy.
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.
As Jon Shelton shows, linking Education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable.
The Education Myth questions the idea that Education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity
