Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 FROM INDEPENDENCE TO SECURITY Education and Democracy from the Nation’s Founding 13
6. 2 TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS Education and the Unfinished Project of American Social Democracy 35
7. 3 EDUCATION’S WAR ON POVERTY IN THE 1960s 55
8. 4 NEW POLITICS Democrats and Opportunity in a Postindustrial Society 76
9. 5 “AT RISK” The Acceleration of the Education Myth 101
10. 6 “WHAT YOU EARN DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU LEARN” Education Presidents, Education Governors, and Human Capital Rising 122
11. 7 PUTTING SOME PEOPLE FIRST The Total Ascendance of the Education Myth 148
12. 8 LEFT BEHIND The Politics of Education Reform and Rise of the Creative Class 166
13. 9 THINGS FALL APART The Education Myth under Attack 187
14. Epilogue: A Social Democratic Future? 204
15. Acknowledgments 211
16. Notes 215
17. Index 249