Future Now 004 — The Education Myth with Jon Shelton

In today's episode, IFTF's Executive Director Marina Gorbis talks with Jon Shelton, Associate Professor and Chair of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Vice President for Higher Education of the American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin. They discuss Jon’s new book, “The Education Myth,” which challenges the idea that education is a solution to all economic and social inequalities in society. Instead, Jon argues that we need to focus on other policy levers and reforms in addition to education. We hope you'll enjoy this conversation. Quote: “The ‘education myth’ is the idea that education and, more specifically, investment in human capital can magically overcome all of the other economic and social inequalities that exist in our society.” Mentioned in this episode: The Education Myth, Jon Shelton ( The Fantasy Economy, Neil Kraus ( The Education of Blacks in the South 1860-1935, James D. Anderson ( Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order, Jon Shelton ( Thinking Like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman ( Knocking on Labor's Door, Lane Windham ( Don't Blame Us, Lily Geismer ( The Race between Education and Technology, Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz ( The Meritocracy Trap, Daniel Markovits ( The Tyranny of Merit, Michael Sandel (

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This episode was published on Apr 22, 2023.

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