The Merit Myth
How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America
New York : The New Press, [2020]
Format: Book
Description: 302 pages ; 23 cm
"An eye-opening and timely look at how colleges drive the very inequalities they are meant to remedy, complete with a call - and a vision - for change"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction : Jarred awake from the American dream -- What the nation needs -- The rise of the sorting machine -- Understanding the odds -- Standardized bias -- Separate and unequal -- The fight for fairness -- Built to collapse -- College for all.
Subjects:
Discrimination in higher education -- United States.
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States.
College attendance -- Social aspects -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Admission.
Discrimination in higher education -- United States.
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States.
College attendance -- Social aspects -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Admission.
ISBN:
9781620974865
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EDUCATION Car | Eastover | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.