Tag: meritocracy
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GET RID OF THE SPECIALIZED HIGH SCHOOLS
Excerpt from an interesting opinion on NYC specialized high schools. Do we need them? Why do we have them?… The very obvious solution to the specialized high schools’ diversity conundrum is here: get rid of the specialized high schools. They’re an ugly, embarrassing testament to America’s insistence upon inserting hierarchy into all things, including public…
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Demolish the meritocracy myth: No, the specialized high school exam is not a fair admissions screen; it’s discriminatory
And for others, paid school consultants, tutors and prep courses, some starting as early as kindergarten, give students with means, or those with parents in the know, a leg up. That includes poor Asian families who spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars prepping for the exam. The same can be said for gifted…
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America Is Sacrificing Black Education for a False Meritocracy
New York’s segregated schools have become as much a national stain as the Mississippi segregation academies for which Hyde-Smith was shamed in November. Yet because they remain so desirable, and rich with opportunity for those who attend them, their basic premise goes largely unquestioned. As is the guiding principle that sustains them — that in America, a…