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But the strategy won't work if W. follows the cynical example set by his dad and Ronald Reagan. Their approach to racial diversity was to appoint token blacks like Clarence Thomas, whose main credential was being conservative. Many blacks wrote off Thomas and his ilk as turncoats. Nor would...
"Oh, that's Peter Jennings," emits a man who swings his head around as the tall news anchor passes by. The bystander looks about 67 and has a yellow delegate credential hanging around his wide tie. "Dad," says the man's twenty-something daughter, "he's probably busy. Just leave...
Still, the direction in which the American elite is changing right now seems quite clear. We are somewhere in the course of the greatest capitalist boom in our history. One result is that capitalists will make up our country's next elite. The credential you will have to present to...
Noguera stayed at Brown to receive his master's degree in sociology, in addition to a teaching credential, before heading to the West Coast to work on his PhD. After earning a doctorate in sociology from Berkeley in 1989, Noguera initially chose to teach there because of the school's...
A less extreme statement of the principle that performance should be valued over potential is sound, but Lemann's statement that this principle is blatantly violated in today's America is not entirely convincing. Certainly, higher education is strongly linked to money and power and an impressive college credential carries...