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...modern societies see education as the rightful engine for social progress. Underlying this belief is the modern conviction that merit—rather than characteristics such as birth, tradition, race, gender, class, religion, age, and sexual orientation—should determine advancement up the social “ladder?? or hierarchy. Accordingly, the answer to inequality to which many schools, including Harvard, offer or aspire is need-blind admissions: If you are academically good enough, you will get in regardless of your financial status...
...from privileged families, which tend to have more time, taste, and money for education. So no matter how meritocratic the school, most of its student and faculty applicants hail from upper-middle class and wealthy families. Second, no matter how meritocratic the school, current meritocracy rarely questions the social ladder??s height, let alone its existence. Meritocracy simply seeks to ensure free movement up and down the ladder so those most capable rise while those least capable fall...
According to the study, women and minorities are being hired disproportionately as lecturers, associate professors, or other “non-ladder?? positions, while the percentage of minority tenured faculty, on average, has increased by one percentage point in a decade...
...years old, dying from about five different things,” Vendler explained, recalling aloud some of his famous last lines from his poem “Circus Animals’ Desertion”: “…Now that my ladder??s gone,/ I must lie down where all the ladders start/in the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart...
...Mass. Hall—University President Lawrence H. Summers. Their tight relationship is famous in Washington circles: they have known and worked with each other for a quarter of a century. Rubin is credited with softening Summers’ rough edges and grooming him to ascend the government ladder??Summers was his deputy and successor at Treasury. Last year, when the University was hunting for a visionary genius to lead Harvard into the 21st century, Rubin promised the search committee that Summers was it, and that the prodigy’s legendary aggression had been tempered by time...