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...establishment and its willingness to open itself up to competition—hello there, legacy admissions!—and I’m thus wary of those who argue that our society is already a meritocratic paradise. I’m also extremely wary of those who claim that the best way to fix this is to engage in a sort of therapeutic racism that, inevitably, is forced to decide who among the minorities is a “deserving” minority and who is an “over-represented” one. In theory, admissions should...
...half-century has passed since Glimcher first arrived at Harvard. On October 16 his grandson, 17-year-old Nicholas A. Nehamas, waited for his turn to stake his own claim in the dream...
...need for higher education no longer has the fuzzy haloed status of an American dream: it’s a necessary reality. And Fitzsimmons and other opponents of Early Action claim that equalizing the process will benefit an increasing number of disadvantaged students...
Despite the press release’s claim that the tome “charts her unprecedented decision to run for Senate…and shows how Hillary used her White House experience to amass power in her own right,” the book has only tenuous links to Clinton’s current career as a senator and her future prospects as a Democratic presidential candidate...
...closely linked. But now they share a dubious distinction as the only two states to have failed thus far to compile and release standardized student test results for 2006 as required under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, giving further fodder to the law's critics who claim test scores have little to do with providing a solid education in the first place...