In the News: Elite-College Admissions Are Broken
In this article in The Atlantic, Richard Weissbourd says that "There's a disease in that so many people are focused on 10 to 20 highly selective colleges that aren’t any better than 100 other colleges,” If we don't crack this disease, this obsession, "we can't get rid of achievement pressure."
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