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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoRevisionist History: The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion on Apple Podcasts2024-01-04T02:14:24+00:00
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pushkin-prize-for-egregiously-deceptive-self/id1119389968?i=1000614390178
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/magazine/men-college-enrollment.html
robertogrecoadmissions colleges universities highered highereducation gender affirmativeaction 2023 menhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1eb5b76fdfed/Opinion | The Real, Hidden Truth About College Admissions - The New York Times2023-08-07T03:35:57+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/opinion/college-admissions-affirmative-action.html
robertogreco2023 frankbruni colleges universities admissions meritocracy education highered highereducation failurehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:87de218d0d05/Bard: Pictures from an Institution | The New Yorker2023-05-10T03:09:37+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/pictures-institution
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https://thedigradio.com/podcast/higher-ed-crisis-w-dennis-hogan/
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-of-a-life-changing-philosophy-of-games/id1548604447?i=1000576579207
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2020/09/30/the-forbes-investigation-how-the-sat-failed-america/#34a8910153b5
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https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/extinction-event/
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https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/higher-ed-in-crisis/
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https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime/
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/clarence-thomass-radical-vision-of-race
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/meritocracy-killing-high-school-sports/597121/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/opinion/sunday/college-admissions-extracurriculars.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/magazine/almost-all-the-colleges-i-wanted-to-go-to-rejected-me-now-what.html
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https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/harvard-uchicago-elite-colleges-are-anomaly/586627/
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-honest-college-rejection-letter
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https://alexposecznick.com/2019/04/19/the-great-american-meritocracy-machine/
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https://twitter.com/biblio_phile/status/1116078675743531008
robertogrecoStill, over the past year, I've really sat with that question: how much am I actually dismantling systemic oppression in my work if I'm still teaching within the confines of its language?
yup I'm putting together a chart folks. Send me arguments you've heard in favor of the canon and your rebuttal! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CaQ7OhhZlY1V_0xfoDxtzk0QtOjzuW8TKgttoGNfxH0/edit?usp=sharing
also: anyone interested in this, please know that #disrupttexts has been doing this work and got me on this train so mad props to them
https://twitter.com/DulceFlecha/status/1116459497768275969
ever since seeing Julia Alvarez and Elizabeth Acevedo I've been thinking about how kids of color are conditioned to write for white audiences, too. who do we teach young writers to prioritize.
and its perpetuated over and over, through canon, through college admissions, through the whiteness of the profession. I keep meaning to write about it.
https://twitter.com/juliaerin80/status/1116458774405971968
For me, one of the deepest issues is that folks defend it using the words "tradition" and "shared knowledge" ignoring the fact that it centers only SOME traditions and SOME shared knowledge.
https://twitter.com/juliaerin80/status/1116460583350669318
I cannot state this enough because a "shared cultural heritage" dominated by one culture at the exclusion of so many others is damaging and not a heritage I will choose to claim as my own. "Educational malpractice"...
https://twitter.com/triciaebarvia/status/1116638447484190720
Yup. And reminds me of what I think @Ready4rigor wrote (paraphrasing) about how all teaching is culturally responsive—it’s just a question of whose culture we’re responsive to. 🤔 #DisruptTexts
https://twitter.com/juliaerin80/status/1116458934582304768
So, we need to all circle around whiteness and protect it by making sure kids learn MOSTLY about it for the sake of tradition? Nah, fam...
https://twitter.com/UmmJuwayriyah1/status/1116516073673842688
Definitely, nah! As an indigenous American Muslim author, I see it happening on this side of the pond, too! Asian and/or Middle Eastern and mostly male narratives are amplified for inclusion in the canon. While Black/Brown American Muslim narratives sit outside the door.
https://twitter.com/MelAlterSmith/status/1116461945731858437
Hard to believe there are still teachers out there who have “canon defender” in their bio. Actually, it’s not hard to believe at all... sigh. 😩
#DisruptTexts #THEBOOKCHAT & #TeachLivingPoets are growing- I hope we can help to make some serious change in complicating the canon
https://twitter.com/javramgoldsc/status/1116809046437183489
Covered Octavia Butler in class this yr (tbf I'm in Uni), but I think the hopepunk canon will be a major catalyst
https://twitter.com/Altair4_2381/status/1116091237281533954
I’m a white woman, and even I felt like my tastes were mostly ignored in HS, except when we read something like Pride and Prejudice (optional because we can’t make the boys read about women!).
https://twitter.com/biblio_phile/status/1116092299669229568
right?!?! honestly it was a few white women I was battling this out with. I wanted to be like-- if you were given books ONLY by men, you would have been ticked. Why is that okay when it comes to race/sexuality/class/other non-canon perspectives!??!?!
https://twitter.com/Altair4_2381/status/1116093753641644033
It makes me wonder how much the canon-lovers read. If they had experienced more variety, some classics by other types of people, some modern books, some great graphic novels, maybe they’d be more open to teaching more variety.
https://twitter.com/NaomiH_nothing/status/1116603199605989378
"History is written by the victors"~Churchill
Yes! Great stuff was written & said by victors:
“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created.." (only ~200 years before MLK was murdered)
"Liberty and Justice for.." [embedded: https://twitter.com/NaomiH_nothing/status/904754635222663169 ]
"Land of the.." etc.]]>thecanon canon christinatorres 2019 inclusion inclusivity tradition chimamandaadichie juliaalvarez elizabethacevedo admissions colleges education inequality universities culture heritage exclusion gender race racism sexism octaviabutler hopepunk sexuality class diversity classics learning chimamandangoziadichiehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0c39c66fd656/Luxury Interiors – Popula2019-04-09T18:52:59+00:00
https://popula.com/2019/04/08/u-s-c-and-a-s-u-and-harvard-and-oberlin/?mc_cid=99855db2d9&mc_eid=7e355757ff
robertogrecoI’m from a Sun Devil family. My mom worked at Arizona State… I don’t think any of the jokes about ASU are based on a real understanding of the kind of education you could receive there; it’s based on the number of people who can access that education […]
The same people who surely believe that every child should have access to a college education also make sure to rank some of those educations as enviable and others as embarrassing. The idea of an elite, high-class education must be hoarded by a select few, because if everybody had it, it would lose its value to the elite.
Which just begins to explain why someone like Mossimo Giannulli might want to be able to say, “my daughter is at U.S.C.”
***
When people are willing to drown themselves in debt and even commit literal crimes in order to obtain an elite college education for themselves or their kids, what, really, what exactly, do they they think they are buying?
Or selling. What are people thinking, who are selling an “education” that is actively harming a whole society; that wrecks the fabric of a city, that causes people to lose their grip on their conscience, their sanity; that makes them set so catastrophic an example, somehow both before, and on behalf of, their children. All this makes a mockery of the Enlightenment values—by which I mean the egalitarianism and erudition of Alexander Pope, and not Edmund Burke getting himself in a lather over Marie Antoinette—that a Western education was once imagined to represent.
Reaction to the admissions scandal has so far centered on these rich parents and their unworthy spawn, whose lawyers now prepare to spin a tale of misguided, but forgivable, parental devotion. No less a cultural authority than the playwright David Mamet wrote an “open letter” defending accused admissions cheat Felicity Huffman; according to him, “a parent’s zeal for her children’s future may have overcome her better judgment for a moment.” Except that the “moment” went on for months, according to court filings, and involved Huffman’s paying $15,000 to ensure that her daughter would have twice the time to complete her SAT exam that an ordinary, non-bribery-enabled kid would have. Also to hire a crooked proctor afterwards, who could change some of her daughter’s wrong answers to correct ones.
In any case, Hess is right: You can get an ultrafine education at A.S.U. That place is an R1 university, positively bristling with Nobel laureates and MacArthur fellows. Walter V. Robinson, who led the famous “Spotlight” newsroom at the Boston Globe, teaches there. It’s wild to think anyone would be willing to blow half a million dollars to ensure an admission to U.S.C. over A.S.U.
Anyone who has been to (any) college can tell you that the proportion of enlightenment to hangovers varies greatly from customer to customer. It’s something else altogether that calls for the half-million bucks.
***
Coming from a quite different angle—and on March 27th, the very same day as Hess’s piece—Herb Childress, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, asked: “How did we decide that professors don’t deserve job security or a decent salary?” (“This is How You Kill a Profession.”) Childress is one of tens of thousands of Ph.D.s in the United States who failed to find a place on the tenure track, and who were slowly forced out of a professional academic career as their prospects faded year by year in the academic Hunger Games, as this brutal process is not uncommonly described.
You might assume that people like Childress just “didn’t make it” through some fault of their own, but you’d be wrong. Over the last fifty years academic work has come to look more and more like indentured servitude: Grad students and postdocs are a species of flexible workers in a gig economy, toiling in low-paying jobs waiting for their once-a-year chance to play the tenure track lottery.
Please note that these are the very people who work in the “good schools,” who are compelled to “teach,” for insanely low pay—like, a few thousand dollars per class—people like Mossimo Giannulli’s daughter Olivia Jade, a famous YouTube “Influencer.” This lady’s dad paid hundreds of thousands to put her in the orbit of hugely educated, committed, job-insecure people like Childress. She, meanwhile, impishly bragged to her legion of YouTube followers that she doesn’t really “care about school.”
And yet scholars like Childress can’t let go of their romantic notions of the academy, and their sense of vocation, which can easily be exploited; unfortunately they’ll agree to live the dream even at cut rates, as Childress himself openly admitted in the Chron.
The grief of not finding a home in higher ed—of having done everything as well as I was capable of doing, and having it not pan out; of being told over and over how well I was doing and how much my contributions mattered, even as the prize was withheld—consumed more than a decade. It affected my physical health. It affected my mental health. It ended my first marriage. […]
Like any addict, I have to be vigilant whenever higher ed calls again. I know what it means to be a member of that cult, to believe in the face of all evidence, to persevere, to serve. I know what it means to take a 50-percent pay cut and move across the country to be allowed back inside the academy as a postdoc after six years in the secular professions. To be grateful to give up a career, to give up economic comfort, in order to once again be a member.
Consider the benefits-free, pension-free pittance paid to the vast majority of people providing the elite education, who never saw a dime of all those millions in bribes, and a more complicated and larger picture than we’ve yet seen emerges."
…
"I wasn’t nearly as much of a paragon, but as a brown-trash “gifted” kid who came up poor and went to fancy schools I can easily understand how listening to this brilliant lecturer dazzled my friend, and changed the course of his life. This feeling comes to students anywhere, everywhere, in every school with a good teacher with time and attention to give us. There was and still is something vital, something good and real, to want out of an “education,” something quite beyond the ken of the kind of people who would pay an SAT proctor to cheat.
Then there’s this other angle. I first went off to college already inured to the idea that I was involved in an economy; that we were trading. Everything had been made easier for the rich kids, of course, and it wasn’t their fault, all had been bought and paid for by their parents and grandparents, but also—a crucial thing—they had also lacked our luck; they lacked certain desirable qualities, qualities as randomly distributed as wealth, things with which some of us had won a different lottery, had skipped grades with and been celebrated for: the sort of “intelligence” that made school easy. There seemed to be a natural symbiosis in this structure, crazy and shameful as the whole business of “meritocracy” appears to me now.
But also like all college kids we mainly didn’t give a fuck about any of that and just got to be friends for true reasons, just loved one another. The rich kids happened to be able to teach the poor ones what fork to use and how to ski, and the poor and/or brown kids of halfway reasonable intelligence gave them books, new kinds of food and family, music and art, a view of the other side of the tracks, new ways to have fun. We poor ones brought, say, a taste for Lester Bangs, arroz con pollo, Brian Eno and Virginia Woolf; they treated us to foie gras and Tahoe and big old California cabs on our 18th birthday. Gross, right? Really gross. But the (grotesquely mistaken) idea was that we were bringing each other into a better world, a different world, and a little at a time the true, good world would finally come.
This may sound a bit tinfoil but now I suspect that the problem may have been, all along, that all the college kids started to realize together (as I think they are still) that there was something sick at the roots of this tree of knowledge as it was then constituted. Strangely, dangerously healing, egalitarian ideas began to take hold; demographics changed, and the country began to move to the left. The 90s was the era of the tenured radical on campus, and the culture wars grew white-hot. Al Gore was elected president, and was prevented by the merest whisker from taking office. Even a barely left of center President Gore would have made things a little too parlous for the powers that be, who are on the same side as the Giannullis of the world.
Hess told me that some people think there’s one kind of education within the purview of everyone willing to work to get it, the “embarrassing” kind, and then there’s another kind that is luxury goods, strictly for “elites” from “elite” institutions—however corrupt the latter may be—served tableside by an underpaid servant class.
But the egalitarian view of education and the luxury view are mutually exclusive. Pulling up the drawbridge around your ivory tower only cuts it off from the global commons, which alone can provide the intellectual atmosphere in which a free society, and its academy, can breathe and thrive. Power wants its “meritocracy”: thus the eternal cake-having rhetoric around higher education, the queasy mingling of “exclusivity” and “diversity.”
Note too that the ruling class protects its interests as starkly on the fake left of the centrist Democrats as it does on the right, where the Koch brothers have long bought professors like they were so many cups of coffee. In Jacobin, Liza Featherstone’s bracing denunciation of noisily multilingual, Harvard- and Oxford-educated Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg addressed this centrist hypocrisy plainly (“Have You Heard? Pete Buttigieg is Really Smart”).
The professional-management class (PMC)… tries hard to make their children “gifted” and to nourish their talents, an effort that is supposed to culminate in the kind of august institutional validation that [Buttigieg] has enjoyed… Smartness makes some people more deserving of the good life than others. Smartness culture is social Darwinism for liberals.
***
So the problem we’re looking at turns out to be a political one. It’s obvious enough that the intelligentsia of the United States finds itself reduced to literal servitude. Writers, professors, even the votaries of STEM, doctors, scientists and engineers, increasingly play the role of servants to the ruling class, who are systematically diminishing their roles, their numbers and their economic and decisionmaking power, concurrently and on all fronts.
In government, in the current administration, experts are made explicitly subservient to cretins with almost miraculously inadequate credentials. In the press, hedge fund managers who’ve never read a book outside of Atlas Shrugged are stripping the fourth estate and selling it off for parts. In the academy, administrators who’ve never taught a class starve the adjuncts, even as they themselves enjoy walloping six-figure salaries and exit bonuses.
The American intelligentsia is also in the process of being strangled in its own citadels with the aid of rampant both-sides-ism. In the New York Times alone, unqualified writers like Bret Stephens, Bari Weiss, David Brooks and Thomas Friedman are permitted to style themselves “public intellectuals” despite their permanent and boggling inability to form or defend an informed, cogent argument. This has the double effect of discrediting newspapers and the newspaper business, and devaluing the profession of journalism. And the independent voices that would once have challenged such poor work amid a mighty chorus must increasingly fight to make themselves heard.
In journalism, as in the academy and in government, educated people who were once sought after and engaged to help shape public opinion are struggling just to put bread on the table. They are writing ad copy, hustling for freelance and “teaching” trust fund kids who’d much rather be plastering themselves with makeup in exchange for Instagram ad money.
To watch Donald Trump, who is an imbecile, boast day after day of his own intelligence and how well he did in school, to hear his followers yabber on about “protecting Western Civilization” when what they mean by that is plain white supremacy, is to arrive at the bottom of the fiery slide to damnation that began with George Wallace’s inane insults about “pointy-heads,” Reagan’s aw-shucks Morning in America Arms Sales Spectacular, and Dan Quayle explaining how to spell “potatoe.”
What there is to protect isn’t what they call Western Civilization, nor even what used to be called Western Civilization. But there is something still to protect, and even to fight for; a teenager in a crowded old auditorium, listening for the first time to a fine college lecture, and entering almost unconsciously into the light of a changed world."]]>education elitism highered highereducation 2019 mariabustillos culture society smartness petebuttigieg operationvaristyblues meritocracy us capitalism competition scarcity lizafeatherstone donaldtrump centrism herbchildress academia colleges universities rankings admissions learning collegerankingshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d56470697e43/What Makes a Fair College Admissions Process? | JSTOR Daily2019-03-31T23:07:26+00:00
https://daily.jstor.org/what-makes-a-fair-college-admissions-process/
robertogrecojuliepark christineyano nadirahfarahfoley 2019 admissions colleges universities meritocracy lottery collegeadmissions highered highereducation merit inequality academia academics education school schooling us firness laniguinier democracy privilege jonathanmills race racism michaelyoung learninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ef8ab101d5b4/Malcolm Harris: College Admissions Scandal and Capitalism2019-03-20T22:46:40+00:00
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/malcolm-harris-college-admissions-scandal-and-capitalism.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admissions-cheating-scandal.html#click=https://t.co/VzXhDRvrJz
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https://www.chronicle.com/article/Want-to-Learn-How-The-World/245525
robertogrecocolleges universities trends admissions youtube highered highereducation education srghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:528fb325ac62/The Acceptance Rate Of Elite US Colleges From 2015 To 2018, Visualized - Digg2019-01-06T05:05:53+00:00
https://digg.com/2018/acceptance-rate-elite-colleges-data-viz
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/does-it-matter-where-you-go-college/577816/
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https://www.wired.com/story/tyranny-neurotypicals-unschooling-education/
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https://theoutline.com/post/6499/education-won-t-fix-inequality-by-itself
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/well/family/how-i-know-you-wrote-your-kids-college-essay.html
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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/admit-everybody
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/UC-needs-to-be-transparent-about-who-gets-in-12757352.php
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/opinion/students-competition-unions-bargaining.html
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https://harpers.org/archive/2017/11/the-working-classroom/
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https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/top-college-rankings-list-2017-us-news-investigation/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/opinion/sunday/white-resentment-affirmative-action.html
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https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/05/unconventional-admissions-policy/483423/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/opinion/check-this-box-if-youre-a-good-person.html?_r=0
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/opinion/sunday/not-leadership-material-good-the-world-needs-followers.html
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https://soundcloud.com/joi-ito/33-conversation-with-mimi-ito
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http://www.businessinsider.com/the-dark-side-of-silicon-valley-according-to-a-teenager-who-grew-up-there-2016-8/#-1
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https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2016/08/reuters-sat-act-and-test-insecurity.html
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http://jezebel.com/all-the-greedy-young-abigail-fishers-and-me-1782508801?rev=1467143834269
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http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/dont-send-your-kids-to-college-at-least-not-yet/
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http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/02/16/465753501/standards-grades-and-tests-are-wildly-outdated-argues-end-of-average
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http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/to-the-point/students-and-the-pressure-to-perform
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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/pressure-affluent-parents/417045/
robertogrecoOn the surface, the rich kids seem to be thriving. They have cars, nice clothes, good grades, easy access to health care, and, on paper, excellent prospects. But many of them are not navigating adolescence successfully.
The rich middle- and high-school kids [Arizona State professor Suniya] Luthar and her collaborators have studied show higher rates of alcohol and drug abuse on average than poor kids, and much higher rates than the national norm.* They report clinically significant depression or anxiety or delinquent behaviors at a rate two to three times the national average. Starting in seventh grade, the rich cohort includes just as many kids who display troubling levels of delinquency as the poor cohort, although the rule-breaking takes different forms. The poor kids, for example, fight and carry weapons more frequently, which Luthar explains as possibly self-protective. The rich kids, meanwhile, report higher levels of lying, cheating, and theft.
Why is this? As Rosin reports, a major factor is “pressure”—from parents, teachers, themselves, whoever—to excel not just in school but in a host of other activities as well. All of that pressure and the resulting hyper-activity seem to leave kids feeling very tired, very inadequate, and very alone. No wonder they are miserable.
But that does little to answer the question of why there is so much pressure in the first place. It turns out that there is a pretty straightforward—and ultimately very troubling—answer: It’s because the competition for a place among the country’s well-off is so vicious. To secure one of those spots, kids must gain admission to a relatively small number of elite colleges and universities, which “essentially did not grow but rather became increasingly selective” since the 1970s. (By contrast, in Canada, where higher education “lacks a steep prestige hierarchy,” the admissions competition is less dire.)
In part, this is because of what sort of people make up America's elite today: not the owners of family businesses but professionals with impressive educations. Family businesses are heritable; education, by contrast, is not. No matter how successful parents are, their kids have to earn their own way in (albeit, of course, with the incredible advantages that come from having highly educated, well-off parents). As sociologist Hilary Levey Friedman put it in an interview with Jessica Grose at Slate, “If you’re a doctor, lawyer, or MBA—you can’t pass those on to your kids.”
All of this results in what the economists Garey and Valerie Ramey of the University of California, San Diego, brilliantly termed “the rug rat race.” As they wrote in a 2010 paper, “The increased scarcity of college slots appears to have heightened rivalry among parents, which takes the form of more hours spent on college preparatory activities.” In their findings, the rug rat race takes place primarily among the most educated parents, because there simply aren’t enough spots at elite schools for less-educated parents to even really have a shot, especially as the competition accelerates. It’s for this reason that the most educated parents spend the most hours parenting, even though they are giving up the most in wages by doing so.
This intense competition does more than serve as a giant sieve for college admissions; it is also a intensive training process for the actual skills that it takes to succeed at the upper echelons of the American economy. As one soccer parent told Friedman during her research on parenting in such a competitive culture, “I think it’s important for [my son] to understand that [being competitive] is not going to just apply here, it’s going to apply for the rest of his life. It’s going to apply when he keeps growing up and he’s playing sports, when he’s competing for school admissions, for a job, for the next whatever.” Friedman concludes, “Such an attitude prepares children for winner-take-all settings like the school system and lucrative labor markets.”
This leaves affluent parents with little choice. Even for those who fear the consequences of the pressure on their kids, they may figure it’s worth getting through a few tough years for a lifetime of economic security. One thing that bolsters this rationale: the steep dropoff in incomes and wealth from the very, very rich to America’s struggling middle class. There is a lot to be gained by being among the very elite. If that's something you have a reasonable shot at, there’s a good argument for taking it.
The conversation about the intense pressure on kids is normally focused on parenting culture, on what parents are doing wrong. But this all needs to be considered in the broader context of the American economy. The pressure on kids may come from parents, but it’s the result of systemic forces so much bigger and so much more powerful than anything any household has control over.
In a sense, what wealthy parents are doing is working. There is very little social mobility in America, up or down, and most of those born into the richest and best-educated households will someday run their own high-earning, highly educated households.
Then again, it’s not working at all. There is very little social mobility in America, up or down, and most of those born into the poorest and least-educated households will someday run their own low-earning, poorly educated households. How is it that a country so prosperous shines its munificence on so few? And, for those who do find success, why does getting there leave them feeling so hopeless?"]]>education affluence precarity economics inequality society socialmobility us incomeinequality fear parenting schools learning competition fragility hannahrosin pressure anxiety stress selectivity colleges universities rebeccarosen gareyramey valerieramey admissions scarcity jessicagross suniyaluthar paloalto siliconvalleyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8210c1676020/What one college discovered when it stopped accepting SAT/ACT scores - The Washington Post2015-10-05T07:17:24+00:00
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/09/25/what-one-college-discovered-when-it-stopped-accepting-satact-scores/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/opinion/sunday/what-the-privileged-poor-can-teach-us.html
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https://gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/six-horrible-innovations-of-charter-schools/
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http://midnightbreakfast.com/come-on-sister
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http://thereadinessisall.com/2013/05/10/thegreatescape/
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http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/can-learn-homeschooling/
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-ca-knight-art-essay-20141221-column.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/upshot/for-accomplished-students-reaching-a-top-college-isnt-actually-that-hard.html
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https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/25/bennington-introduces-new-option-applicants
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http://www.americanradioworks.org/documentaries/the-new-face-of-college/
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/09/28/at_the_elite_colleges___dim_white_kids/?page=full
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http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118747/ivy-league-schools-are-overrated-send-your-kids-elsewhere
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http://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/whats-really-wrong-with-advanced-placement-courses-and-college-board/
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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/10/immorality-college-admissions-2013102945841711416.html
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http://zhaolearning.com/2013/08/22/china-enters-%E2%80%9Ctesting-free%E2%80%9D-zone-the-new-ten-commandments-of-education-reform/
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/13/white-definitions-merit-and-admissions-change-when-they-think-about-asian-americans
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/opinion/sunday/bruni-how-to-choose-a-college.html
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http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-corporatization-of-higher-education
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http://www.nais.org/about/article.cfm?ItemNumber=155607
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPeKdXhGcZQ
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