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Education and Class -- Related Articles in The
Atlantic
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The Structure of Success, by Nicholas Lemann (1995)
An inside
look at the history and working of one of the most familiar yet least
public of American institutions -- the Educational Testing Service.
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The Great Sorting, by Nicholas Lemann (1995)
The first mass
administrations of a scholastic-aptitude test led with surprising speed to
the idea that the nation's leaders would be the people who did well on
tests.
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The Tests and the Brightest, by James Fallows (1980)
Each
year some 2.5 million high school students match wits with the Scholastic
Aptitude Tests. The results go a long way toward determining who gets into
the most selective colleges. The tests are the subject of a growing
debate. Do they really discover the best and the brightest? Or do they
chiefly identify the richest and the most expensively educated?
- Education for a
Classless Society, by James Bryant Conant (1940)
In an
address he delivered at the University of California, Harvard University
President Conant declared, "I look forward to a future American society in
which social mobility is sufficient to keep the nation in essence casteless
-- a society in which the ideals of both personal liberty and social
justice can be maintained -- a society which through a system of public
education resists the distorting pressures of urbanized, industrialized
life."
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