In the first episode of the Archbridge Podcast, Archbridge Institute Director of Programs Ben Wilterdink talks with Gonzalo Schwarz, the Founder, President, and CEO of the Institute. They discuss why the American Dream continues to be an important vision for the United States, how the pandemic is reshaping traditional education, and some of the core factors research suggests affects rates of economic mobility.
Discussion Links:
All in with the American Dream
Raj Chetty Fading American Dream
Scott Winship’s Primer on Economic Mobility in America
Remote Learning Is a Catastrophe. Teachers Unions Share the Blame.
COVID-19 Is Disrupting the Future of Higher Education
The Importance of Structural Factors in Understanding Economic Mobility
Do Poverty, Inequality, and Mobility Have a Lot in Common? Not Really
Megan McArdle on Economic Mobility in Utah
On Natural and Artificial Barriers to Mobility
Why Meaning Matters For Freedom And Flourishing
Ian Rowe - Incentivize individual agency to achieve upward mobility
The Denigration of Personal Agency as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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