I propose a two-type Affirmative Action system for college admissions. It would give extra consideration to two groups: 1. Black Americans and Native Americans 2. Americans from poor backgroundshttps://twitter.com/business/status/1054374025374433280 …
I think that's not the greatest metaphor. And remember that my system would have class AA on top of Black/Native AA.
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I know people like to pooh-pooh the idea that we don't have a class system in the US, but we really don't when it comes to smart people. Working class people who get a TEM education jump to the upper middle class quite easily.
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The thing is people of a certain class are the ones who can better educate their children to become smart and thus successful. So "smart" still becomes a proxy for "class."
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This is 100% true. I am unique as a math PhD what with having gone to American public school and having no academic parents (in fact, first gen, which is the hot new thing). Nonetheless, the truly brilliant get easily found.
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It's not really going to work that way. You have to look at how academia works and particularly how State Research University works, as opposed to Harvard. What's good for Harvard may have some effect on the Masters of the Universe, but not in the day-to-day world.
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