Meritocracy

Democracy Is Not Self-Correcting

Nathan Gardels | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: American Meritocracy, Mario Monti, Italy Debt Crisis, Eurozone Debt, Eurozone Crisis, Meritocracy, Eurozone Debt Crisis, U.S. Eurozone Crisis, Politics News

What matters for good governance is an open society -- freedom of expression and the rule of law to protect feedback -- not whether the system is meritocratic, democratic or a hybrid.

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Education "Reform" -- Garbage In, Garbage Out

Steve Nelson | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Pearson Education, Education, Racism, Meritocracy, Kaplan University, Education Reform, White Privilege, McGraw Hill, Education News

The problems with education in America will be addressed only when we recognize that it's all about race, class and inequity.

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A Formal Call for a Politics of Dignity

Charlotte Hill | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Financial Crisis, Governance, Power, Dignity, Meritocracy, Rankism, Politics News

While others have celebrated freedom, we have celebrated money. While others, living under dictatorship, have celebrated choice, we have celebrated celebrity.

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There Are No "Top Tier" Colleges, Schools (or Kids!)

Steve Nelson | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Sat Scores, College Placement, College Admissions, Top-Tier-Schools, Ivy League, Selective Colleges, Young Women's Leadership School, Meritocracy, Education News

You high school seniors, applying to or waiting to hear from colleges, ignore all the nonsense about top tier schools. And especially ignore the ridiculous notion that your SAT score or grade point average defines who you are.

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The Tea Party Misses the Point of OWS's Aspirations

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Politics, Wall Street, Class War, Presidednt Obama, Zucotti Park, Occupy Wall Street, Rep. Allen West, Financial Crisis, Media, Chattering Class, Tea Party, Meritocracy, Rep. Steve King, Business News

It is the outrage against the corruption and destruction of our once heralded system of meritocracy that is the core of Occupy Wall Street. The Tea party would do well to take heed.

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China's Worldview Imperative: Don't Rock Our Boat

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Crackdown, Ant Apartments, Jwt, Jasmine Revolution, Hu Jintao, Death Penalty in China, Chinese Dream, Silent Walking Protests, Armani, Cctv, Zhang Miao, Harmony in China, Declaration of Independence, China as Superpower, Egypt Revolution, Middle Kingdom, Chinese Pragmatism, Yao Jiaxing, Chinese Worldview, Chinese Legal System, Chinese Anxiety, Ai Weiwei, Micro-Bloggers, Xi Jinpin, Stability in China, Japan Tsunami, Meritocracy, Chinese Central Government, Wen Jiaboa, Japan Earthquake, Human Rights, Fujian Provence, Chinese Middle Class, Ccp, Chinese Optimism, World News

Everything that registers on China's international -- and, for that matter, domestic -- radar does so because it, directly or indirectly, impacts stability.

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When Young People Stopped Dreaming in Greece

Thanos Dimadis | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Immigration, Unemployment, Youth, Greece, Greek-Youth, Meritocracy, Economic Crisis, World News

There is a motto in the Greek language which is often used and refers to how Greece treats young people living in the country and struggling to succee...

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It Is About Time Educators Are Treated Like Business People (SATIRE)

Peter Zucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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I am no longer going to fight the fight. From this moment on I only want to be treated as if I were employed in a true blue American business.

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Be Afraid, Very Afraid

Ilene H. Lang | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fear, Stereotypes, Mancession, Pay Gap, Football, Zombie, Halloween, Boardroom, Top Ten, Meritocracy, Business News

I was never a fan of scary movies because there are enough real scary things already out there! Below is a list of the top ten things that my colleagues and I are scared about this Halloween. Freddy Krueger's got nothing on these.

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Yalie Perplexed by Anti-Yale Sentiment

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Admissions, Yale University, Chris Coons, Christine O'donnell, Connecticut Senate Race, Harvard, Elite, Meritocracy, Politics News

Americans don't resent upward mobility; they just resent getting so few chances at it. There isn't an obvious solution to this situation. But until we address it, we need to be prepared for a great deal of irritation from a great many people.

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Saying High-Tech Is a Meritocracy Doesn't Make it So

Caroline Simard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High Tech Companies, Women, Human Capital, Misogyny, Women Technology, Michael Arrington, Women in Business, Stanford University, Venture Capital, Feminism, Meritocracy, Silicon Valley, Technology News

Research shows that women face persistent barriers to retention and advancement in the high tech industry. Is it "all men's fault?" No.

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Reading Plato With Columbia Students

Megan Doherty | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Great Books, Core-Curriculum, Socrates, Plato, Columbia University, Meritocracy, Dead White Men, Plato's Republic, New York News

I faced my first Core Curriculum class at Columbia last week armed with the names of my 20 students and a heavily annotated copy of Plato's Republic.

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Helpful Advice for Rhodes Scholars (For the Rest of Us, Maybe Not So Much)

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clayton Christensen, New York Times, Rhodes Scholar, Harvard Business School, Aristocrats, Meaning of Life, Meritocracy, David Brooks, College News

In replacing aristocracy with meritocracy, are we really opening the gates of opportunity, or merely replacing one narrow ideal with another?

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Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor

Maynard Webb | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Freelance Economy, The White House Council on Women and Girls? Forum on Workplace Flexibility, Meritocracy, Liveops, Healthy Living News

Playing it safe does not fuel growth for our companies. It does not create personal freedom. And it will never change the world.

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Meritocracy: World Cup Fever

Maynard Webb | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freelance Economy, Meritocracy, Ebay, World Cup 2010, Business News

The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member.

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The Trouble With Meritocracy

Mark Olmsted | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Meritocracy, Social Stratification, Capitalist Society, The Giving Life, Social Classes, American Meritocracy, Social Class, Social Inequity, Healthy Living News

Here's the question society needs to ask itself: Do the "average" and "below average" have the same right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as the "above average" and "excellent?"

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Prize of the Meritocracy

Rob Fishman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Warren Buffett, Michael Young, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Meritocracy, Rise of the Meritocracy, Books News

Goldman Sachs is, by its own account, a meritocracy -- a word first used by Michael Young in 1958. In the half-century since, we seem to have forgotten that the original work was satire.

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The American Nightmare

Rob Fishman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Of all the misdeeds carried out on the southern tip of Manhattan over the last decade, perhaps Wall Street's greatest fraud was to arrogate the very meaning of the American Dream.

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A Year Later -- My Clarion Call to America Left Unanswered

Lynn Tilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Small Business, Lynn Tilton, Economy, Economic Crisis, Wall Street, Clarion Call, Recession, Main Street, Obama, Gdp, Job Creation, Meritocracy, Obama Administration, Business News

We are living in interesting times and the road to resurgence will be long and fraught with obstacles. The path to economic recovery begins with truth.

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Breaking the Gender-Merit Link

Nancy Hopkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Empathy, Boston Globe, Ted Kennedy Senate Seat, Empathy, Merit Pay, Sonia Sotomayor, Steve Kornacki, Hillary Clinton, Yvonne Abraham, Massachusetts, Meritocracy, Ted Kennedy, Martha Coakley, Politics News

When someone suggests gender diversity as an asset of a job candidate, the reply is often "Oh no, I'm only interested in merit." Yet name some other quality needed for the position, and the idea of merit is assumed, not questioned.

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Meet the Black Elite!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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That the charity of New York's best events is secondary, even insignificant, in contrast to the stylishness of those in attendance, is a 'dirty secret' that's routinely denied.

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Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.

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Are You Worthy? It's Time to Question Meritocracy

Phillip Martin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farm Workers, Foreclosures, Merrill Lynch, Poverty, Molly Secours, Bank of America, Rick Santelli, Wall Street Bonuses, Meritocracy, Home Foreclosures, Black Unemployment, Politics News

Rick Santelli's self-righteous outburst directed at down-on-their-luck foreclosed home buyers amounts to what the late sociologist William Ryan termed "blaming the victim."

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The Audacity of Whiteness: Framing Barack Obama

Jill Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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In journalism, white people who are granted the role of analyzing everyone, including African Americans, who are likely overlooked or spoken for by white expert opinion.

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Italy: No Country For Young Men

Alessandro Fusacchia and Fabio Oliva | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Generational Divide, Italy, Italian Politics, Obama, Youth Empowerment, Rena, Meritocracy, Infrastructure, World, Public Transportation, Red Tape, Europe, Barack Obama, Transportation, World News

Change, unfortunately, is hard to come by in Italy, a country bogged down by red-tape, political scandals and lack of innovation.

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