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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. From Independence to Security: Education and Democracy from the Nation’s Founding
  8. 2. To Secure These Rights: Education and the Unfinished Project of American Social Democracy
  9. 3. Education’s War on Poverty in the 1960s
  10. 4. New Politics: Democrats and Opportunity in a Postindustrial Society
  11. 5. “At Risk”: The Acceleration of the Education Myth
  12. 6. “What You Earn Depends on What You Learn”: Education Presidents, Education Governors, and Human Capital Rising
  13. 7. Putting Some People First: The Total Ascendance of the Education Myth
  14. 8. Left Behind: The Politics of Education Reform and Rise of the Creative Class
  15. 9. Things Fall Apart: The Education Myth under Attack
  16. Epilogue: A Social Democratic Future?
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Notes
  19. Index
  20. Series Page
  21. Copyright

Index

Abel, I. W., 90

Action for Excellence, 107

ACTWU (Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union), 90

Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), 183

African Americans: 2020 election and, 210; access to education for, 21–22, 52; Clinton and, 6; Freedom Budget and, 70–72; Full Employment Act and, 45; GI Bill and, 43, 136; Great Society reforms and, 62; job-training programs and, 84; Kerner Commission and, 72–75; knowledge economy and, 156; manufacturing sector and, 70; mathematics education and, 152; NAFTA and, 150; National Assessment of Educational Progress and, 106; New Deal programs and, 38; Reconstruction Era and, 27; slavery and, 23–28; standardized testing and, 170; voucher programs and, 133–35; welfare reform and, 155–56; in Wisconsin, 188

Alexander, Lamar, 125, 126, 129, 168

Allen, Danielle, ix, 5, 195

Allen-Bradley Company, 134

Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, 28

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), 90

American Council of Education (ACE), 40

American Defense Education Act of 1982, 117–18

American Farm Bureau, 46

American Federation of Labor (AFL), 46, 72, 87, 94, 98, 150

American Federation of Teachers (AFT), 96–97, 98, 100, 157–61, 170

American Legion, 39–40

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), 190

American Motors Company (AMC), 150

American Railway Union, 28

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), 183, 184

Americans for Democratic Action, 90

America’s Choice: High Skills or Low Wages, 143–44

Anderson, John, 101

A. Philip Randolph Institute, 70

Apple Computers, 128, 180

Arkansas Education Association, 140

Arkansas Science and Technology Development Authority, 140

Association of Land Grant Colleges, 40

Babbitt, Bruce, 120

Bailey, Keith, 171

Baisinger, Grace, 97

Baran, Paul, 224n46

Barkan, Joanne, 192

Barnard, Henry, 217n17

Bascom, John, 13, 176

Beadie, Nancy, 3

Becker, Gary, 10, 39, 55–57, 85, 102, 125, 143, 160, 177, 205; Human Capital, 55, 68, 145–46

Bell, Daniel, 79, 84, 167, 203; The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, 76–77, 83, 99, 124, 143, 164, 226n7

Bell, Terrel, 7, 9, 97, 103, 104–8

Bennett, Marion, 41

Bennett, William, 103, 112–15, 130, 131–32, 134

Bezos, Jeff, 10, 143

Biden, Joe: 2020 election, 7, 209–10; Crime Bill of 1994 and, 163; on Humphrey, 91–92; Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 and, 196

Blacks. See African Americans

Bloom, Allan: The Closing of the American Mind, 113

Blue-Ribbon Commission on 21st Century Jobs (Wisconsin), 174–76

Blue-Ribbon Task Force on Educational Excellence (NEA), 108

Boeing, 177

Booker, Cory, 184, 208

Bowen, Howard, 84

Brademas, John, 96

Bradley, Bill, 115

Bradley Foundation, 134

Briggs and Stratton Corporation, 109–10

Brock, Bill, 143

Brookings Institution, 132

Brooks, Charles, 217n17

Brooks, Jack, 97

Brown, Francis, 45

Brown, Jerry, 115, 116, 145

Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 36, 52–53, 60, 135

Brown v. Board of Education II (1955), 81

Buchanan, Pat, 7, 149, 164, 171, 199, 206

Bush, George H.W., 9, 117, 120–23, 126–28, 135–37, 150, 168, 206

Bush, George W., 7, 168, 169–74, 206

Business Coalition for Excellence in Education (BCEE), 171

Businessmen of America Inc., 46

Business Roundtable, 94, 171

Buttigieg, Pete, 209

Califano, Joseph, 97, 231n87

California, higher education funding in, 65, 67, 177

Carlson, Jack, 93

Carnegie Steel Works, 28

Carter, Jimmy, 6, 11, 78, 86–87, 89, 92–100, 101, 205–6

Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE), 191

Caudelle, George, 228n32

Cavazos, Lauro, 129

Cebul, Brent, 126

Chappell, Marisa, 228n42

charter schools, 130–35, 173

Chase, Bob, 107–8, 158, 159–60, 192

Chavez, Cesar, 72

Chicago Teachers Federation (CTF), 32

Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), 9, 30, 191–93, 209

Chiles, Lawton, 139

Chisolm, Shirley, 98

Choate, Pat, 117, 118

Chubb, John, 132–33, 134

Citizens Committee for a Cabinet Department of Education (CCCDE), 97

Citizens United v. FEC (2010), 189

Civil Rights Act of 1964, 4, 59, 70, 88, 94

Clinton, Bill, 148–65; 1992 election, 9, 124, 145–47; Call to Action for American Education, 159; critics of, 161–65; Democratic Leadership Council and, 4, 9, 123–24, 126, 140, 141; labor unions and, 150–51, 154–55, 157–61; NAFTA and, 117, 150

Clinton, Hillary, 7, 9, 149, 181, 196–202

Cloward, Richard, 62

Coca-Cola Co., 129

Cohen, Wilbur, 96–97

collective bargaining, 15, 37–38

College of William and Mary, 17

Colmery, Harry, 40

color-blind policies, 43, 79, 102, 112, 115

Committee on Economic Development, 107, 124

Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, 164

Common Cause, 90

Commons, John, 14, 48

Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels), 82

Community Action Program, 62

Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973, 85–86, 89, 110

Compton, Arthur, 222n62

Conant, James, 61

Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), 89

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 44, 46, 72, 87, 94, 98, 150

Cooper, Melinda, 58

Coordinating Committee for Higher Education (Wisconsin), 66–67

Corbett, Tom, 190, 191

Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), 47, 90

Coxey, Jacob, 28–29

Cramer, Katherine, 188

creative class, 166–67, 176, 180–81, 188, 203, 207

Crime Bill of 1994, 163

Cruz, Ted, 201

Daley, Richard, 139

Daniels, Dominick, 85, 86

Darling-Hammond, Linda, 184

Declaration of Independence, 15

Deming, W. Edwards, 139

Democratic Leadership Council (DLC): Clinton and, 6, 123, 140–41, 149–54; neoliberalism and, 119–21; No Child Left Behind Act and, 172; rise of, 137–45

Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), 184

Department of Education (US), 6, 78, 95–99, 104, 112, 152, 206

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (US), 96

Department of the Interior (US), 95

desegregation, 131. See also Brown cases

DeVos, Betsy, 207

Dewey, John, 15; Democracy and Education, 31

Dewey, Thomas, 44

DFER (Democrats for Education Reform), 184

Dimon, Jamie, 195

Dole, Bob, 157, 158, 169

Dominick, Peter, 65

Donahoe Act of 1960 (California), 65

Douglas, Stephen, 25

Douglass, Frederick, 23–24

Drucker, Peter, 143, 144, 164, 181, 220n3, 227n13

Dukakis, Michael, 115, 116, 120–21, 122–23

Duncan, Arne, 184, 191

Economic Bill of Rights, 35, 44

Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, 59, 62

Educational Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, 104

Ehrenreich, Barbara and John, 82–83

Eisenhower, Dwight, 96

Eisenhower, Milton, 222n62

Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 4, 58, 59, 60–65

Ely, Richard T., 13

Emanuel, Rahm, 192

Emens, John, 222n62

Emergency Jobs Act of 1974, 85–86

Employment Act of 1946, 46–49, 70, 86

Engels, Friedrich, 82

entrepreneurialism, 103, 116–19, 139–40, 147, 170

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 112

Erler, Rebekah, 193–94

Escalante, Jaime, 152

Evers, Tony, 11, 191

Facebook, 180

Fannin, Paul, 65

Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), 38

Federal Housing Administration (FHA), 38, 40

Federal Reserve, 90, 93, 101

Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, 164

Finley, Murray, 90

Florida, Richard, 176, 180, 181, 188, 206; The Rise of the Creative Class, 9, 166–68, 203

Food Stamp Act of 1964, 59

Ford, Gerald, 86, 87, 101

Forward Wisconsin Survey, 175

Fourteenth Amendment, 52

Foxconn, 191, 208

Foy, Lewis, 93

Frank, Thomas, 183, 238n4

Franklin, Benjamin, 217n7

Fraser, Douglas, 97

Fraser, Steve, 217n7

Freedom Budget, 62, 69–72, 205

Friedman, Milton, 85, 102, 143; “The Role of Government in Education,” 130–31

Frist, Bill, 171–72

From, Al, 119, 120, 139

Full Employment Act of 1945, 44–46, 91

Full Employment Action Council (FEAC), 90, 92

Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1976, 89–91

Fuller, Howard, 133, 135, 170

Gaebler, Ted, 138–39, 142, 146

Galston, William, 121

Gardner, David, 104

Gardner, John W., 67

Geiger, Keith, 126, 136

Geismer, Lily, 81

Geithner, Timothy, 183

General Electric, 129

General Motors, 47

Gephardt, Dick, 115

GI Bill (1944), 4, 35–36, 39–43, 56, 135–36, 220n3

Gillespie, Dean, 41

Gillibrand, Kristin, 208

Gingrich, Newt, 134, 155

Ginzberg, Eli, 86

Goals 2000, 151, 152–53

Goals for Education: Challenge 2000, 152

Goldfinger, Nathaniel, 86

Goldin, Claudia, 181; The Race Between Technology and Education (with Katz), 179

Gore, Al, 115, 119, 150, 162, 170–71

Gou, Terry, 208

Great Railroad Strike (1877), 28

Great Society reforms, 55–75; Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 60–65; enactment of, 58–60; Freedom Budget and, 69–72; Higher Education Act of 1965, 65–69; job-training programs and, 84–85; Kerner Commission and, 72–75

Green, Edith, 68

Greenspan, Alan, 91

Gregorian, Vartan, 128–29

Groeger, Cristina, 3

Haley, Margaret, 15, 32, 205

Hansen, Alvin, 44

Harkin, Tom, 120, 145, 157, 237n81

Harrington, Michael, 72; The Other America, 58

Hart, Gary, 82, 115, 117–19, 159; A New Democracy, 117, 119, 160

Hatch, Orrin, 94

Hawkins, Augustus, 2, 78, 88–92

Hayes, Jim, 128

Head Start program, 60

Heller, Walter, 58

Heritage Foundation, 134

Higher Education Act of 1965, 42, 58, 59, 65–69

Higher Education Amendments Act of 1972, 69, 79

Hispanics. See Latinos

Hoffman, Paul, 45

Homestead Act of 1862, 16, 26

Hopkins, Harry, 38, 43

Hudson Institute, 124, 144, 156

human capital: Clinton and, 146; defined, 10; Freedom Budget and, 71–72; neo-liberalism and, 116–21; right to a job and, 45–46; voucher programs and, 129–35

Humphrey, Hubert, 2, 78, 86–91, 228n45

Hunt, James, 115, 116, 126, 143, 177

IBM, 129, 177

immigration, 32–33

Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994, 148, 152, 154

income inequality, 56, 146, 198, 215–16n11

Industrial Workers of the World, 28

Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 86

Jackson, Jesse, 118, 119, 120, 150

Javits, Jacob, 89

Jefferson, Thomas, 3, 14, 16–17, 22, 204, 217n7

Jim Crow laws, 38

Job Training Partnership Act of 1982, 110–11, 116, 127, 196

job-training programs: Goals 2000 and, 153–54; labor market and, 144; middle class and, 196; neo-liberalism and, 116–17; Nixon and, 83–86; Reagan and, 110–11

Johnson, Andrew, 27

Johnson, Lyndon, 5, 58–60. See also Great Society reforms

Jordan, Vernon, 92, 97

JPMorgan Chase, 195

Kahlenberg, Richard, 107

Kallen, Horace, 50, 222n62

Kamarck, Elaine, 121

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, 24

Kasich, John, 190, 191

Katz, Lawrence, 181; The Race Between Technology and Education (with Goldin), 179

Katz, Michael, 3, 21

Katznelson, Ira, 43, 218n23

Kaye, Harvey, 40

Keefe, Jeffrey, 190

Kennedy, John F., 62, 84

Kennedy, Ted, 99–100, 171, 172

Keppel, Francis, 63, 64, 96, 97

Kerner, Otto, 72

Kerner Commission, 72–75

Kerr, Clark, 65

Keynesian economics, 37, 43–45, 91, 228n45

Keyserling, Leon, 44, 89

Kildee, Dale, 172

King, Coretta Scott, 2, 78, 88, 90, 94, 97

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 70, 72, 90

Kirkland, Lane, 100, 151

Knights of Labor, 28

knowledge work, 143, 144, 156, 180, 182

Koch, Charles and David, 189

Kraus, Neil, 173, 241n44

Krugman, Paul, 195–96

Kurapka, David, 138

labor unions: 2016 election and, 202; Carter and, 87, 88; Clinton and, 157–62; Employment Act of 1946 and, 47; full employment ideal and, 47–49; NAFTA and, 150, 154; New Deal and, 2, 37, 42, 47; Nixon and, 85; Obama and, 183; Professional-Managerial Class and, 83; Progressive Era and, 30–31; Reagan and, 108–9; in Wisconsin, 48–49. See also specific unions

Lafer, Gordon, 110, 111, 157

La Follette, Phillip, 48

La Follette, Robert, 13–14, 176

Land Ordinance of 1785 (US), 16, 17

Lathrop, John, 23

Latinos: 2020 election and, 8, 210; Clinton and, 6, 149; knowledge economy and, 156; mathematics education and, 152; standardized testing and, 170; in Wisconsin, 150

League for Industrial Democracy, 72

Lee, John, 229n60

Legislative Research Bureau (Wisconsin), 14

Leo XIII (pope), 45

Leontief, Wassily, 89

Lieberman, Joe, 171

Lincoln, Abraham, 24–26, 28, 204–5

Lincoln, Murray, 222n62

Lipset, Seymour Martin, 137–38

Louisiana Purchase, 16

Lowe, Robert, 224n35

Lucey, Patrick, 80

Lugar, Richard, 94

Lumina Foundation, 177

Lyall, Katharine, 175

Madison, James, 217n7

Madrid, Arturo, 177

Magaziner, Ira, 105, 111, 142, 143

Making the Grade, 107

Mann, Horace, 18–22, 32, 64, 88, 114, 204

Manpower and Training Development Act of 1962, 84, 85

manufacturing sector: African Americans and, 70; competitiveness of, 142, 143; job losses in, 83, 133, 167, 176, 184, 201–2; job-training programs and, 159; knowledge economy and, 77; labor unions and, 88, 94, 175–76; NAFTA and, 182; A Nation at Risk and, 105; Professional-Managerial Class and, 82; Trans-Pacific Partnership and, 197; Trump and, 208; in Wisconsin, 109, 176, 187–88, 191

market capitalism, 20–21

Marshall, Ray, 93, 143, 229–30n70

Marshall, Thurgood, 52

Marx, Karl, 82

Massachusetts: public education in, 18–19; public schools in, 22

McCain, John, 181, 183

McCarthy, Charles, 14

McDonough, Gerry, 97

McGovern, George, 61, 81, 87, 96

McGuire, Willard, 99

Medicare and Medicaid, 59, 168, 198

Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO), 81

Mettler, Suzanne, 42

Metzgar, Jack, 50; Striking Steel, 48

Michigan: education funding cuts in, 191; higher education funding in, 66; public universities in, 22–23

Microsoft, 177, 180

middle class, 82–83, 193–94

Miller, Charles, 177

Milliken v. Bradley (1974), 82

Milwaukee Teachers Education Association (MTEA), 133

minimum wage, 15

Missouri Compromise (1820), 24

Mnuchin, Steve, 207

Moe, Terry, 132–33, 134

Mondale, Walter, 96, 103, 118–19

monopoly capitalism, 224n46

Morrill Act of 1862, 3–4, 26, 218n40

Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1890, 218n40

Morse, Wayne, 68

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick: The Negro Family, 62

Murphy, George, 65

Murray, James, 44, 46, 91, 221n44

NAACP, 46, 133, 135

Nader, Ralph, 171

NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), 6, 117, 148, 150–51, 154, 162–63, 197, 202, 208

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 106

National Association of Manufacturers, 46, 151

National Center on Education and the Economy, 143

National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress, 84

National Committee for Full Employment (NCFE), 90

National Congress of Parents and Teachers (NCPT), 97

National Defense Education Act of 1958, 60–61

National Education Association (NEA): Blue-Ribbon Task Force on Educational Excellence, 108; Carter and, 87; Clinton and, 157–61; Democratic Leadership Council and, 126; Department of Education and, 95, 97, 99; founding of, 32; GI Bill and, 40; Gore and, 170; Investing in Public Education, 160; National Defense Education Act and, 118; A Nation at Risk and, 108; No Child Left Behind Act and, 173; Towner-Sterling Bill and, 33

National Education Goals Panel, 128

National Education Standards and Improvement Council (NESIC), 152

National Endowment for the Humanities, 112, 113

National Farmers Union (NFU), 44, 46

National Governors Association (NGA), 125, 128, 140

National Labor Relations Act of 1935, 44

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), 94, 103

National Organization for Women, 90

National Resources Planning Board (NRPB), 38, 43

National Right to Work Committee, 94

National School Boards Association, 97

National Skills Standards Board, 152

National Women’s Trade Union League, 46

A Nation at Risk, 103–8, 114, 144

Negro American Labor Council, 70

Nelsen, James, 134

neo-liberalism and neoliberalism, 115–21, 161, 215n10

New American Schools Development Corporation, 129

New Deal, 4, 35–54; expansion of educational opportunity and, 49–53; FDR’s Second Bill of Rights and, 37–39; GI Bill and, 39–43; right to employment and, 43–49

The New Democrat magazine, 137, 155

Newfield, Christopher, 233n42

New Hampshire, public schools in, 22

New York: higher education funding in, 66; public schools in, 22

NFU (National Farmers Union), 44, 46

NGA (National Governors Association), 125, 128, 140

Nixon, Richard, 79, 83–84, 85

No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, 7, 9, 168, 169–74, 178

North American Free Trade Agreement. See NAFTA

Northwest Ordinance (1787), 24–25

Norton, Eleanor Holmes, 143

Nunn, Sam, 140

Nussbaum, Karen, 143

Obama, Barack, 6, 9, 181–96, 206

Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria, 208

Occupy Wall Street, 189, 191

Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), 60, 71, 85

O’Hara, Joseph, 41

Ohio, education funding in, 66, 191

Ohlin, Lloyd, 62

Omar, Ilhan, 208

Osborne, David, 138–39, 141, 142, 146

Owens, Deborah Duncan, 232n18

Paige, Roderick, 177

Paine, Thomas: Agrarian Justice, 16

Panama Canal Treaty (1978), 111

Parental Options Choice Bill of 1990 (Wisconsin), 135

Parnell, Marilynn, 97

PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization), 109

Pell, Claiborne, 68

Pell Grants, 163, 177, 194

Pennsylvania: education funding cuts in, 191; higher education funding in, 66; public schools in, 17–18, 21, 22 Perot, Ross, 147, 150, 199, 206

Perpich, Rudy, 130

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, 155, 156–57, 163

Peters, Charles, 116

Peterson, Iver, 79–80

Philbin, Philip, 40–41

Phillips, Kevin, 77

Polk, James K., 24

Poor People’s Campaign, 72, 90

populist movement, 29

Powell, Adam Clayton, 64

President’s Commission on Civil Rights, 52

President’s Commission on Higher Education, 36, 50–52

Pressley, Ayanna, 208

private schools, 131, 132. See also voucher programs

Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), 109

Professional-Managerial Class (PMC), 78–83, 88, 227n19

Progressive Era, 29–32, 205

Progressive Policy Institute, 137, 170, 236n47

Prouty, Winston, 68–69

Proxmire, William, 91

Race to the Top (RTT), 184–85

Randolph, A. Philip, 2, 8, 58, 62, 69–72, 84, 89, 205

Rangel, Charles, 172

Rankin, John, 43

Reagan, Ronald: 1980 election, 100, 101–2, 123; education myth and, 7; A Nation at Risk and, 103–8; neo-liberalism and, 115–21; political economy of, 9, 108–11, 206; Walker influenced by, 187

Reconstruction Era, 27

Reich, Robert, 105, 111, 116, 142–45, 151–53, 162, 164, 206; Locked in the Cabinet, 149, 198, 237n83; Saving Capitalism, 198; The Work of Nations, 142, 143, 148, 149, 160

Rendell, Ed, 139

Reuther, Walter, 47, 72, 84, 85, 227n24

Ribicoff, Abraham, 96

Richardson, Joseph, 217n17

Riessman, Frank: The Culturally Deprived Child, 62

Riley, Richard, 126, 151–53, 160

R.J. Nabisco, 129

Rockefeller, Nelson, 83

Romney, Mitt, 193

Roosevelt, Franklin D.: GI Bill and, 35, 39–43; Second Bill of Rights and, 1–2, 36, 37–39, 48. See also New Deal

Rothenberg, Randall, 115–16, 161, 215n10, 227n16

Rubin, Robert, 163

Rush, Benjamin, 17–18, 22

Rustin, Bayard, 2, 58, 62, 69–72, 205, 225n60

Ryor, John, 96, 97–98

Samuel, Howard, 143

San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973), 81–82

Sandel, Michael, 5, 188, 237n85

Sanders, Bernie, 7, 9, 189, 191, 197–99, 203, 206, 209

School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994, 148, 154

Schultz, George, 85

Schultz, Theodore, 10, 39, 55–56, 59, 85, 143, 205

Schultze, Charles, 92

Second Bill of Rights, 1–2, 36, 37–39, 48

segregation, 52, 70, 81–82. See also desegregation

Self, Robert, 163

Seltzer, Marlene, 195

Service Employees International Union (SEIU), 151

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944. See GI Bill

Sessions, Jeff, 207

Shanker, Albert, 88, 96–97, 98, 107, 157, 192

Sheil, Bernard, 45

Sherman, William Tecumseh, 27

Silber, John, 112

skills gap, 195–96

slavery, 15–16, 23–28

Smith, Adam, 142–43

Smith-Hughes Act of 1917, 31

Smith-Lever Act of 1914, 218n40

Snyder, Rick, 190, 191

social democracy: breadwinner model of, 194; Clinton and, 145–46, 148–49, 155, 161–62; defined, 10; education myth and, 2–3, 7, 98, 157; founding of America and, 15–18; Great Society and, 4–5, 58–59, 65, 71–75; human capital and, x, 8; Humphrey-Hawkins Act and, 78, 86–95; need for recommitment to, ix, 204–10; neo-liberalism and, 115–16, 118–20; New Deal and, 4, 35–38, 42–44, 47, 53–54; Obama and, 183, 185, 193; populist movements and, 28–29; Reagan and, 102–3, 109, 122; Sanders and, 189, 191, 197–98; school voucher programs and, 135

Social Security Act of 1935, 14, 38, 44, 59

Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), 90

Southern Regional Education Board, 152

Spellings, Margaret, 177

Spellings Commission, 178–79, 194, 241n41

Stein, David, 230n76

Stein, Judith, 228n45, 231n2

Steinhardt, Michael, 236n47

STEM, 180

Stevens, Thaddeus, 217n17

Summers, Larry, 183

Sweeney, John, 151

Sweezy, Paul, 224n46

Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, 87, 93–94, 162

Tappan, Henry, 23

tax credits for college tuition, 162–63

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, 207

Tea Party, 189

A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education, 178–79

Thomas, Clarence, 112

Thompson, Tommy, 123, 133–34, 139, 156, 168–70, 174, 176, 187

Tillerson, Rex, 207

Time for Results: The Governors 1991 Report on Education, 125–26

Tlaib, Rashida, 208

Torrijos, Omar, 111

Total Quality Management (TQM), 139, 158

Towner, Horace Mann, 33

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), 6, 194, 197, 202, 208

Treaty of Detroit (1950), 47–48

Truman, Harry, 4, 9, 36, 46, 50–52

Trumka, Richard, 208

Trump, Donald, 207–8; 2016 election, 7, 8, 11, 189, 199–202; 2020 election, 8, 11, 209–10

Tsongas, Paul, 115, 118, 145

Twentieth Century Fund, 107

Udall, Morris, 86

unemployment insurance, 14, 42, 48

Union for Democratic Action, 46

unions. See labor unions

United Auto Workers (UAW), 47, 72

United Farm Workers, 72

United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), 209

University of California, 65, 177

University of Chicago, 55

University of Michigan, 22–23

University of Wisconsin, 13, 23, 66–67, 80–81, 174, 176, 188, 190–91, 205

US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), 208

Van Hise, Charles, 13–14

vocational education, 39–43, 139

Volcker, Paul, 95, 230n76

Voting Rights Act of 1965, 59, 94

voucher programs, 123, 129–35, 158

Wagner, Robert, 36, 44–45

Wagner Act of 1935, 4, 37–38, 42, 47

Walker, Scott, 7, 9, 11, 187–89, 190, 206

Wallace, George, 86

War on Poverty. See Great Society reforms

Washington, George, 22

Weir, Margaret, 218n23

Weiss, Samuel, 41

welfare reform, 155–56

Wellstone, Paul, 172

Whig Party, 18

White, Walter, 45

Wilkins, Roy, 90

Williams, Polly, 133, 134–35

Wilmot, David, 24

Wilson, William Julius, 156

Winant, Gabriel, 48

Windham, Lane, 83

Wirtz, William, 58

Wisconsin: 2016 election and, 11, 199, 202; 2020 election and, 11, 210; Blue-Ribbon Commission on 21st Century Jobs, 174–76; education funding for veterans in, 41; education myth and, 169–70; employment and labor law in, 48–49; higher education funding in, 65–66, 80–81, 174–76; market-based education reforms in, 139; mid-term elections of 2010 in, 187–88, 190; NAFTA and, 150, 182; public universities in, 22, 23; Reaganomics and, 109–10; voucher programs in, 133–35; welfare reform in, 156

Wisconsin Technical College System, 174

Witte, Edwin, 14, 48

Woodcock, Leonard, 90

workers’ compensation, 14

Workforce 2000, 124–25, 128–29, 144, 156

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014, 196

Works Progress Administration (WPA), 38, 43

World Trade Organization (WTO), 182

Wurf, Jerry, 97

Xerox, 128

Yang, Andrew, 209

Young, Whitney, 84, 85

YWCA, 46

Zook, George, 50

Zuckerberg, Mark, 143, 184

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