
FreshEd #324 - The Education Myth (Jon Shelton)
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The Importance of Opportunity in American History
The word opportunity is a term that's been used very differently over the course of American history. It starts to go from being something that really has sort of a lot of wide possibilities, and something that can coexist with something like economic security. And so human capital makes it possible for people to believe in that idea because when you basically say, hey, you've had the opportunity, you've got a good education, we're going to make sure every kid gets an equal opportunity.
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