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can home school their children.’15 Under Trump the US faces the end of
the liberal era of schooling—the end of educational equality—and a reas-
sertion, especially as Trump’s presidency unfolds, of less government in-
volvement and the endorsement of socially conservative values. This is the
“Make American Great Again” narrative of the American Dream under
Trump but not through meritocracy and not through education and the
traditional liberal notion of equality of educational opportunity.
References
Brown, P., Lauder, H.A. (2011) The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of
Education, Jobs, and Incomes. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Cullen, J. (2003) The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That
Shaped a Nation. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hacker, J.S. & Pierson, P. (2010) Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington
Made the Rich Richer – and Turned its Back on the Middle Class. New
York, Simon & Schuster.
Hanson, S.L. & Zogby, J. (2010) The Polls – Trends; Attitudes about the
American Dream, Public Opinion Quarterly 74(3), Fall 2010, pp. 570–
584.
Ho, A.K. (2007) Achieving the American Dream. Lanham, MD: Hamilton
Books.
Hochschild, J.L. (1995) Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and
the Soul of the Nation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Johnson, H.B. (2006) The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choos-
ing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity. New
York: Routledge.
Kamp, D. (April 2009) “Rethinking the American Dream. Vanity Fair. Re-
trieved June 20, 2009.
Newman, K.S. (1993) Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American
Dream. New York: Basic Books.
Peters, M.A. (2012) Obama and The End of the American Dream: Essays in
Political and Economic Philosophy. Rotterdam: Sense.
Peters, M.A. (2017) The End of Neoliberal Globalisation and the Rise of Au-
thoritarian Populism, Educational philosophy and Theory, http://www.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2017.1305720
Peters, M.A. & Chiang, T. (2017) America Closed, China Open, Education-
al philosophy and Theory, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080
/00131857.2017.1288347
15 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/where-donald-trump-stands-on-education/
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can home school their children.’15 Under Trump the US faces the end of
the liberal era of schooling—the end of educational equality—and a reas-
sertion, especially as Trump’s presidency unfolds, of less government in-
volvement and the endorsement of socially conservative values. This is the
“Make American Great Again” narrative of the American Dream under
Trump but not through meritocracy and not through education and the
traditional liberal notion of equality of educational opportunity.
References
Brown, P., Lauder, H.A. (2011) The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of
Education, Jobs, and Incomes. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Cullen, J. (2003) The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That
Shaped a Nation. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hacker, J.S. & Pierson, P. (2010) Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington
Made the Rich Richer – and Turned its Back on the Middle Class. New
York, Simon & Schuster.
Hanson, S.L. & Zogby, J. (2010) The Polls – Trends; Attitudes about the
American Dream, Public Opinion Quarterly 74(3), Fall 2010, pp. 570–
584.
Ho, A.K. (2007) Achieving the American Dream. Lanham, MD: Hamilton
Books.
Hochschild, J.L. (1995) Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and
the Soul of the Nation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Johnson, H.B. (2006) The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choos-
ing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity. New
York: Routledge.
Kamp, D. (April 2009) “Rethinking the American Dream. Vanity Fair. Re-
trieved June 20, 2009.
Newman, K.S. (1993) Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American
Dream. New York: Basic Books.
Peters, M.A. (2012) Obama and The End of the American Dream: Essays in
Political and Economic Philosophy. Rotterdam: Sense.
Peters, M.A. (2017) The End of Neoliberal Globalisation and the Rise of Au-
thoritarian Populism, Educational philosophy and Theory, http://www.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2017.1305720
Peters, M.A. & Chiang, T. (2017) America Closed, China Open, Education-
al philosophy and Theory, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080
/00131857.2017.1288347
15 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/where-donald-trump-stands-on-education/
40
