If Academe is Part of the Problem of Inequality and Oligarchy, What Is the Solution? #FuturesEd

By Cathy Davidson. A recent sociodemographic study of how the top 10 universities supply the professorate way beyond their numbers to every other university documents how much the attitudes of elitism academics so often critique pervade its own practices.  "The Academy's Dirty Secret" documents the academy's systematic contribution to what Guinier calls "the tyranny of meritocracy." Read more...