The Education Myth : How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy /

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"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,...

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Autor principal: Shelton, Jon, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Human capital.
Education > Political aspects.
Education > Economic aspects.
Education and state.
Economic security.
Democracy and education.
Economic security > United States > History.
Human capital > United States > History.
Democracy and education > United States > History.
Education and state > United States > History.
Education > Political aspects > United States > History.
Education > Economic aspects > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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