America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth Lisa Ain Dack smart writers learn what not

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America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth Lisa Ain Dack smart writers learn what notAmerica's latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as "four fundamentalisms" market deregulation, patriotic and religious fervor, the instrumentalization of