{"id":2893,"date":"2010-08-15T22:44:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T03:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2010-08-15T22:44:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T03:44:30","slug":"whats-really-wrong-with-american-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/08\/15\/whats-really-wrong-with-american-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Really Wrong With American Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>at America\u2019s 146 most-selective institutions, just three percent of the student body comes from the poorest quartile while 74 percent come from the richest quartile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is why, for a lot of us that teach about social\/policy problems, discussions are often absurdly absent any real understanding of what life is like for those in deep poverty.  Tropes of &#8220;welfare queens&#8221; and &#8220;anchor babies&#8221; are reinforced by the fact that there are few people anywhere in the academy with any true legitimacy to challenge them. <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/takingnote.tcf.org\/2010\/07\/does-affirmative-action-matter-a-response-to-matt-yglesias.html\">Richard Kahlenberg<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/2010\/07\/rearranging-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic-of-american-education-related-social-stratification\/\">Matt Yglesias<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at America\u2019s 146 most-selective institutions, just three percent of the student body comes from the poorest quartile while 74 percent come from the richest quartile. This is why, for a lot of us that teach about social\/policy problems, discussions are often absurdly absent any real understanding of what life is like for those in deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}