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...making techniques, women and men will increasingly no longer need to mate in the traditional ways, and Barbara Ehrenreich explores the implications with Swiftian wit. Peter Beinart, editor of the New Republic, says goodbye to politics, predicting that instead religion will become the primary force in shaping society. Nicholas Lemann, author of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, takes a different tack in answering the question, "Who Will Be the Next Elite?" The answer: not yesterday's Wasp or today's SAT high scorer, but the young entrepreneur who IPO'd his way into the ruling...
...Nicholas Lemann, a staff writer at the New Yorker, is author of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
...TEST by Nicholas Lemann. Each year, the Scholastic Assessment Test determines where hundreds of thousands of high school seniors will go to college. Lemann shows how this process developed and casts a gimlet eye on the concentration of so much power in so few hands. Is this any way to run a meritocracy...
...Nicholas Lemann, author of The Big Test, a look at the SAT and educational meritocracy, says Achieva's success is the result of crazed but confused parents. Only nine universities take less than a quarter of applicants. In fact, 1,900 of the 2,100 four- year colleges accept at least half those who apply. Thus it is the families, more than most schools, that can afford to be selective. But then there is the perception that unless a kid goes to Harvard, his life is over. "The parents get obsessed, which makes the kids obsessed," says Lemann. "It turns...
...nation where blacks were shut out of decent schooling for generations, the SAT ran straight into the complications of race. The second half of Lemann's book is largely the story of how the arguments for affirmative action collided with the presumptions of the meritocracy. What to do? Abandon the idea of an elite created by the universities, says Lemann, though he doesn't altogether define what should take its place. All the same, he's right when he describes the predicament of the ETS: "an institution in charge of individual opportunity" in a country where opportunity is "the thing...