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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #87: Class War in the Classroom
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The popular mythology in America is that education is the solvent for inequality; that if kids just get a good enough education from good enough teachers, they’ll be able to bootstrap their way to wealth. This myth, argues author, educator, and Jacobin editor Megan Erickson, ignores the realities of our cl...