Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top
by tomp on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:24AM
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Wow, this is a really bad article. So much fakeness...
> That’s because education in the United States is supposed to be meritocratic.
Then why are like 30% of students at elite colleges admitted as "athletes"? I mean, sure, "best at sports" is "meritocratic" but on a dimension fairly orthogonal to educational success (just like "best at using parent's wealth and connections").
> In 1965, the student population in American colleges and universities was ninety-four per cent white and sixty-one per cent male. By one measure, this problem appears to have been solved, despite tireless resistance to the methods that colleges have used to get there. Today, fifty-six per cent of students are classified as non-Hispanic whites and forty-two per cent of students are male.
So college being 61% male was a problem, and being 58% female is "solved"?
> That’s because education in the United States is supposed to be meritocratic.
Then why are like 30% of students at elite colleges admitted as "athletes"? I mean, sure, "best at sports" is "meritocratic" but on a dimension fairly orthogonal to educational success (just like "best at using parent's wealth and connections").
> In 1965, the student population in American colleges and universities was ninety-four per cent white and sixty-one per cent male. By one measure, this problem appears to have been solved, despite tireless resistance to the methods that colleges have used to get there. Today, fifty-six per cent of students are classified as non-Hispanic whites and forty-two per cent of students are male.
So college being 61% male was a problem, and being 58% female is "solved"?