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The Merit Myth How Our Colleges Favor The Rich

  • SKU: BELL-23992264
The Merit Myth How Our Colleges Favor The Rich
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Publisher: The New Press
File Extension: MOBI
File size: 1.03 MB
Author: How Our Colleges Favor The Rich
ISBN: 9781620974865, 9781620974872, 162097486X, 1620974878
Language: English
Year: 2020

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The Merit Myth How Our Colleges Favor The Rich by How Our Colleges Favor The Rich 9781620974865, 9781620974872, 162097486X, 1620974878 instant download after payment.

An eye-opening and timely look at how colleges drive the very inequalities they are meant to remedy, complete with a call—and a vision—for change

Colleges fiercely defend America's higher education system, arguing that it rewards bright kids who have worked hard. But it doesn't actually work this way. As the recent bribery scandal demonstrates, social inequalities and colleges' pursuit of wealth and prestige stack the deck in favor of the children of privilege. For education scholar and critic Anthony P. Carnevale, it's clear that colleges are not the places of aspiration and equal opportunity they should (and claim) to be.

The Merit Myth delves deeply into the rampant dysfunction of higher education today and critiques a system that pays lip service to social mobility and meritocracy, while offering little of either. Through policies that exacerbate inequality, including generously funding so-called merit-based aid rather than expanding opportunity...

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