A myth won’t educate a nation. The myth is that the U.S. should be doing a better job of preparing underprivileged high school students, so they can win scholarships to Yale, Harvard and other top schools. Then they can march across commencement stages into prosperous careers. This is worse than a myth. It’s a joke. […]
Wick Sloane
Wick Sloane , an occasional to Bloomberg View columnist, teaches writing at Bunker Hill Community College in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and also writes for Inside Higher Ed.