What is the higher education myth?
Channel: Bryan Alexander
Date: 2023-03-10

Is higher education the best route for a person's economic mobility?

This Thursday the Future Trends Forum hosts University of Wisconsin-Green Bay professor Jon Shelton, author of the new book The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy (Cornell University Press), to explore.
https://www.uwgb.edu/democracy-justice-studies/contact/sheltonj/
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501768149/the-education-myth/
 
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