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Meritocracy and Its Discontents investigates the wider social, political, religious, and economic dimensions of the Gaokao, China's national college entrance exam, as well as the complications that arise from its existence. Each year, some nine million high school seniors in China take the Gaokao, which determines college admission and provides a direct but difficult route to an urban lifestyle for China's hundreds of millions of rural residents....
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A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy.
Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans...
Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans...
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"Standing on the foundations of America's promise of equal opportunity, our universities purport to "serve as engines of social mobility" and "practitioners of democracy." But as acclaimed scholar and pioneering civil rights advocate Lani Guinier argues, the merit systems that dictate the admissions practices of these institutions are functioning to select and privilege elite individuals rather than create learning communities geared to advance democratic...
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Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left? In The Aristocracy of Talent, esteemed journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of meritocracy forged by the...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview:#1 Meritocracy is a system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement.
#2 Meritocracy is a social system based on individual ability and achievement. It has many advantages, but it's also been called a neoliberal meritocracy.
#3 The discourse of neoliberal meritocracy is not just found in the West but has also expanded to other countries such...
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While there have been historical accounts of the anarchist school movement, there has been no systematic work on the philosophical underpinnings of anarchist educational ideas-until now.
Anarchism and Education offers a philosophical account of the neglected tradition of anarchist thought on education. Although few anarchist thinkers wrote systematically on education, this analysis is based largely on a reconstruction of the educational thought of...
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Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as declines in employment and widening inequality are pushing more and more people into insecurity and hardship. In Egypt, a generation of young men desire fulfilling employment, meaningful relationships, and secure family life, yet find few paths to achieve this. The Labor of Hope follows these educated...
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"One of Bloomberg View's "Five Books to Change Conservatives' Minds," chosen by Cass Sunstein" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016" "Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers" "Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2016" Robert H. Frank is the H. J. Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell University's Johnson School of...
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A compendium about one of host Malcolm Gladwell's greatest obsessions: education. Malcolm Gladwell has long relished the opportunity to skewer the upper echelons of higher education, from the institution of U.S. News & World Report's Best College rankings to the LSATs to the luxe Bowdoin College cafeteria. The Myths of Meritocracy: A Revisionist History Education Anthology, upends the traditional thinking around how education should work and tries...
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"A Financial Times Summer Books Selection" "Selected as one of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2015" "A Guardian Best Holiday Reads of 2015 selection" Daniel A. Bell is dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University in Qingdao.
How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracy
Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian...
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The COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, but this hiatus provided an opportunity to rethink the fundamental principles of our education system. In this thought-provoking book, Alice Bradbury discusses how, before the pandemic, the education system assumed ability to be measurable and innate, and how this meritocracy myth reinforced educational inequalities – a central issue during the crisis. Drawing on a project dealing with ability-grouping practices,...
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"The American Dream is built no the idea that Americans end up roughly where we deserve to be in our working lives based on our efforts and abilities; in other words, the United States is supposed to be a meritocracy. When Americans think and talk about our lives, we grapple with this idea, asking how a person got to where he or she is and whether he or she earned it. In What We Mean by the American Dream, Taussig tries to find out how we answer those...
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This book is the result of decades-long academic research and 25 years of emergence in the
myth of the American dream. In reality, a small minority of ultra-rich corporations have complete
control over the government and mercilessly exploit the majority of Americans. The author
debunks the illusion of meritocracy, heavily promoted by ubiquitous propaganda. Through the
mainstream media, PR, and academia, the legend is sold to the American people...
20) The diversity bargain: and other dilemmas of race, admissions, and meritocracy at elite universities
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We've heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education, about how universities should intervene if at all to ensure a diverse but deserving student population. But what about those for whom these issues matter the most? In this book, Natasha K. Warikoo deeply explores how students themselves think about merit and race at a uniquely pivotal moment: after they have just won the most competitive game of their lives...
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