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Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination with Kristen Ghodsee

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The Neoliberalization of Education

In the United States, particularly, I don't think we really had very much of a commitment to good high quality public education until after the Second World War. In the late 1980s, I think you began to see this neoliberalization of education. And so that education went from being conceived of as a public good in the service of helping the United States remain a superpower and maintain its hegemonic status in the world. We still see the outcome of that in the differential rates of salary for people who have a high school versus those who have a college education.

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