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Jon Shelton on "The Education Myth"
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The US education system has been sold as the solution for individual success and economic security. Should that still be the model?
Our guest, Jonathan Shelton, questions the idea that education should be the main way to access economic opportunity - especially when pitted against other social democratic alternatives. That's the starting point to his richly-researched new book, The Education Myth, published this spring by Cornell University Press. David Ahrens speaks with Jon Shelton about his new book.
Jon Shelton is Associate Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. A national expert on teacher unions, public education, and the history of working people, Shelton's work has been featured in the Washington Post, Dissent, Jacobin, and numerous other publications. You can follow him on Twitter @prof_shelton.
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