TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guinier,Lani
TI  - The tyranny of the meritocracy: democratizing higher education in America 
SN  - 9780807006276
AV  - LA227.4 .G85 2015
U1  - 378.1/9820973 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Boston, Massachusetts
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Aims and objectives
KW  - United States
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Democracy and education
KW  - Multicultural education
KW  - Discrimination in higher education
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Education (Higher)
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
KW  - LAW / Discrimination
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Standing on the foundations of America's promise of equal opportunity, our universities purport to "serve as engines of social mobility" and "practitioners of democracy." But as acclaimed scholar and pioneering civil rights advocate Lani Guinier argues, the merit systems that dictate the admissions practices of these institutions are functioning to select and privilege elite individuals rather than create learning communities geared to advance democratic societies. Having studied and taught at schools such as Harvard University, Yale Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Guinier has spent years examining the experiences of ethnic minorities at the nation's top institutions of higher education, and here she lays bare the practices that impede the stated missions of these schools. Guinier argues for reformation, not only of the very premises of admissions practices but of the shape of higher education itself, and she offers many examples of new collaborative initiatives that prepare students for engaged citizenship in our increasingly multicultural society"--
ER  -