A focus on elite schools ignores the issues most college students face

Re:A focus on elite schools ignores the issues most college ... by acconrad on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @12:06PM (#11390279)

> FiveThirtyEight is just as bad: The vast majority of our editorial staff, including me, went to elite, selective colleges. (I went to Columbia.)

What an ironic article, given that most of the article doesn't stop talking about elite colleges. I thought the rule was if you wanted to tackle something like this, you just don't write about them.

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Re:A focus on elite schools ignores the issues most college ... by bencasselman on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @04:40PM (#11392811)

I think this is an important issue that's worthy of coverage. I also thought it was important to disclose that I'm not innocent/unbiased in this. FWIW, in my own higher ed writing I try to emphasize more representative schools. (I'm the author of this piece.)

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Re:A focus on elite schools ignores the issues most college ... by exolymph on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @12:42PM (#11390617)

538 wants readership. Changing anything is secondary.

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