The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America

Anthony P. Carnevale,Peter Schmidt,Jeff Strohl

The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America
Format
Hardback
Publisher
The New Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
4 August 2020
Pages
256
ISBN
9781620974865

The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America

Anthony P. Carnevale,Peter Schmidt,Jeff Strohl

Colleges fiercely defend America’s deeply stratified higher education system, arguing that the most exclusive schools reward the brightest kids who have worked hard to get there. But it doesn’t actually work this way. As the recent college-admissions bribery scandal demonstrates, social inequalities and colleges’ pursuit of wealth and prestige stack the deck in favour 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 claim to be.

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