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March 20, 2019   ✎news , kevin carey

NY Times: Kevin Carey asks "How Much Does Getting Into an Elite College Actually Matter?"

Kevin Carey, author of The End of College, the NY Times' Upshot Blog.

❝ The celebrities and C.E.O.s arrested in this week’s college bribery scandal were charged with paying up to $1.2 million for guaranteed admission to elite universities. And of course there’s a much larger and mostly legal system whereby rich people pull strings, hire consultants and make enormous tax-deductible donations, all in the hopes of improving their children’s college chances.

Yet academic research suggests that these efforts are mostly a waste of money, and that the seized opportunities would have actually helped other students much more … [NYTimes.com]


KEVIN CAREY is Director of the Education Policy Program at New America & author of The End of College on the future of learning. Watch him talk about the "Schools of Tomorrow" below, and learn more about booking Kevin for your next event today.

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