Joanne Jacobs
Glittering prizes: Can non-elite college grads become masters of the universe?
It's college application time again. Ambitious 12th-graders are polishing their essays, wondering if mentioning their grandmother's claim...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 192 min read
Ivy crazy: Should colleges make merit broader -- and fuzzier?
" The meritocracy isn't working ," writes David Brooks in The Atlantic . Ambitious parents "ferry their kids from one supervised...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 31, 20231 min read
Are educated people smarter? Link is weakening, says study in Norway
Cognitive ability no longer is linked strongly to years of education, concludes a Norwegian study published in published in Scientific...
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