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  • The Merit Myth

    How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America

    by Anthony P. Carnevale, Peter Schmidt, Jeff Strohl ...
    An eye-opening and timely look at how colleges drive the very inequalities they are meant to remedy, complete with a call—and a vision—for changeColleges fiercely defend America's deeply stratified higher education system, arguing that the most exclusive schools reward the brightest kids who have worked hard to get there. But it doesn't actually work this way. As the recent college-admissions ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Merit Myth

    How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America

    by Anthony P. Carnevale, Peter Schmidt, Jeff Strohl ...
    An eye-opening and timely look at how colleges drive the very inequalities they are meant to remedy, complete with a call—and a vision—for changeColleges fiercely defend America's deeply stratified higher education system, arguing that the most exclusive schools reward the brightest kids who have worked hard to get there. But it doesn't actually work this way. As the recent college-admissions ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Merit Myth

    How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America

    by Anthony P. Carnevale, Peter Schmidt, Jeff Strohl ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 9 min

    Colleges fiercely defend America's deeply stratified higher education system, arguing that the most exclusive schools reward the brightest kids who have worked hard to get there. But it doesn't actually work this way. As the recent college-admissions bribery scandal demonstrates, social inequalities and colleges' pursuit of wealth and prestige stack the deck in favor of the children of privilege ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Failure of Success in America

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    History, Institutions, Values

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