The Myth of the 'The Knowledge Economy' for 03/23/2012

Only 25 percent of all Americans go to college, and only 16 percent of those actually try to learn anything. Welcome a nation of helots.


"In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program around is a first-class education," President Obama famously declared in his 2010 State of the Union address, just as millions of high-schoolers across the nation were going through the annua ...

Updated: Fri Mar 23, 2012

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