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Education Can't Solve Poverty - So Why Do We Keep Insisting That It Can?

Harvey KantorUnions are weak. Wage growth is non-existent. Plutocrats have all the power. And yet the myth that education is all we need to finally "fix" poverty persists. AlterNet education editor Jennifer Berkshire talks with historian Harvey Kantor about how the US gave up on the idea of responding to poverty directly, instead making public schools the answer to poverty.

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Last Updated: 8/31/21