The power of privilege : Yale and America's elite colleges
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The power of privilege : Yale and America's elite colleges
Stanford University Press, 2007
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- : pbk
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内容説明
It is widely assumed that admission to elite U.S. universities is based solely on academic merit-the best and brightest are admitted to Harvard, Yale, and their peer institutions as determined by test scores and GPA, and not by lineage or family income. But does reality support those expectations? Or are admissions governed by a logic that rewards socioeconomic status while disguising it as personal merit?
The Power of Privilege examines the nexus between social class and admissions at America's top colleges from the vantage point of Yale University, a key actor in the history of higher education. It is a documented history of the institutional gatekeepers, confident of the validity of socially biased measures of merit, seeking to select tomorrow's leadership class from among their economically privileged clientele. Acceptance in prestigious colleges still remains beyond the reach of most students except those from high-income professional families. Ultimately, the author suggests reforms that would move America's top schools toward becoming genuine academic meritocracies.
目次
@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Tables xxx Foreword and Acknowledgments xxx @toc2:Chapter one: Meritocracy and Its Discontents 1 Chapter two: Elite Colleges and the Search for Superior Students 000 Chapter three: Social-Class Diversity at Yale after 1950? 000 Chapter four: The Brewster Years, Meritocracy in Power? The New Administration in 1964: Kingman Brewster and Inslee Clark 000 Chapter five: The Old Machinery of Meritocracy Is Discarded: No More Predicting Grades, No More Verbal Analogies 000 Chapter six: Top-Tier Colleges and Privileged Social Groups 000 Conclusions 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000
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