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Contents
1. From Independence to Security: Education and Democracy from the Nation’s Founding
2. To Secure These Rights: Education and the Unfinished Project of American Social Democracy
3. Education’s War on Poverty in the 1960s
4. New Politics: Democrats and Opportunity in a Postindustrial Society
5. “At Risk”: The Acceleration of the Education Myth
7. Putting Some People First: The Total Ascendance of the Education Myth
8. Left Behind: The Politics of Education Reform and Rise of the Creative Class
9. Things Fall Apart: The Education Myth under Attack