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Merit Square-Off: The Fight Over College Admissions
Elite colleges are not meritocracies — if by “meritocracy” we mean that students are admitted solely on the basis of high test scores....
Steven Brint
Steven Brint is Director of the Colleges & Universities 2000 Project and Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside.
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Beyond the Ivy Islands
nbsp;1. IT IS ODD to think that we live in a time when the college model may be in the process of breaking apart. So much suggests that college has never been more successful. Record numbers of students graduate every ...
The Educational Lottery
Education is as close to a secular religion as we have in the United States....
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