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FreshEd #324 - The Education Myth (Jon Shelton)

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Fresh Shed is a weekly podcast that makes complex ideas and educational research easily understood. Today we explore the way in which education and economic well-being were linked in the USA. My guest, John Shelton, calls the link a myth and shows how it prevented alternative visions of education from expanding and furthering social democracy. His new book is entitled The Education Myth, How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy.

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