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