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Blog postNow that the conventions are over and the presidential campaign’s endgame begins, it has become abundantly clear that both the Obama and McCain campaigns are locked in a feverish race for the title of Most Ordinary.
Having stumbled with white working-class voters who don’t seem to trust Obama’s working-class roots, he is running as fast as possible from the elite educational background that helped launch his extraordinary rise to power. Despite their Harvard Law pedigrees, Obama and wife M -
Blog postHarvard's decision to drastically reduce tuition costs for "middle" income families has some observers gushing with praise for America's richest and most powerful university.
But it's not completely out of altruism that Harvard has slashed costs to families earning as much as $180,000 a year -- a "middle" income only in the rarefied world of elite college admissions. America's richest and most powerful university has cut costs for such families in order to preser -
Blog postFinishing a new book and see it go out into the world should be a time of great relief and excitement for me as an author. But as is often the case when I begin the promotion part of authorship, I go into a deep depression. I am drug down by the sensation that I'm beating my head against the Great Wall of American popular culture, which seems absolutely impervious to books about serious subjects.
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Blog postI received an interesting invitation recently. It was from Marshal Zeringue. Marshal runs a wonderful website called the Campaign for the American Reader, and he has a blog that he calls the Page 99 Test, which is based on this Ford Madox Ford quote: "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." Marshal's challenge, if I cared to accept it, was to respond to the Ford quote regarding page 99 of my new book, which he had just learned
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Blog postSo this is what it’s come to. In the 1950’s blacks in the South sued schools because white segregationists were excluding black children from attending their pseudo-private public schools. Now, in 2007, white families sue schools for including blacks and other minorities, for trying to prevent the re-segregation of American schools.
So we think we’ve made progress? It’s the same segregated society as fifty years ago, only worse in the banality of its evil. In this age of Paris Hilto -
Blog postImagine you’re an admissions officer at an elite college or university, which admits just one out of every ten students who apply. In your job, the university’s prestige and reputation are always on the line in every admissions decision you make. You operate within a framework of relatively narrow parameters. While the company line says that no single factor should dominate the decision, such as SAT scores, you know differently. If you accept too many students who don’t fit the right profile
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Blog postStay the course. Don’t give in to the naysayers and defeatists. Forge ahead with the same failed paradigms for improving schools, creating democracies, closing achievement gaps and winning the war against terrorism.
Indeed, the parallels between the Iraq War and George Bush’s education centerpiece, No Child Left Behind, became even more pronounced recently. That’s when the Education Trust, a highly influential educational advocacy organization that played an important role in the -
Blog postI have a friend who has two young children and four dogs. One of these dogs is a pit bull. Captain Chuck, as my friend is known, is quiet and gentle, well educated, and upper-middle class. He’s hardly the sort you would think would own a pit pull. I asked him if he trusted the dog, and Chuck became uncomfortable, telling me the story of how the pit bull, tired of being poked and prodded by Chuck’s nephew one day, had become aggressive with the child. Otherwise, the dog is sweet and playful and
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Blog postThe recent disclosure by a college president that U.S. News & World Report is willing to publish made-up data about a college that dares not play the silly rankings game suggests just how far the magazine is willing to act like Tony Soprano to protect its lucrative franchise. And I’m not talking about the teddy bear Tony who likes his midnight ice cream splurges in his underwear and bathrobe. I’m talking about kick the marked man until he bleeds and leave him to rot in the New Jersey wastela
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Blog postWhen it comes to the class divide in America, we can pretend that it doesn’t exist. We can pretend that we can become whoever we’d like to be in life, regardless of the family we were were born to, what neighborhoods we grew up in, and what sort of schools we attended. We can believe our opportunities are born from personal choices, cultural values, and our wits.
We can believe what Ruben Navarrette Jr., a conservative columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune, believes when he ra -
Blog postThe flagship campus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison has a dirty little secret.
For all the grand rhetoric that higher education leaders have given to the importance of diversity in recent years, UW-Madison and many of our best public universities have instead become bastions of elitism, creating admissions and financial aid policies that are especially harmful to lower-income students and especially beneficial to students from affluent backgrounds.
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Blog postYou have a hard job, Mary Sue Coleman. You are president of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, which has been whipsawed lately by the rapidly changing legal environment of affirmative action. First came the U.S. Supreme Court’s twin rulings in the summer of 2003 over the legality of using race as an admissions boost at your law school and at the undergraduate college. While your undergraduate admissions program didn’t pass the court’s test – too much decisive weight was given to an appl
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