Our Universities : The Outrageous Reality by Andrew Delbanco | The New York Review of Books
▻http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jul/09/our-universities-outrageous-reality
Des la période coloniale et pendant longtemps (notamment pendant la période de l’#URSS) les #Etats-Unis feront beaucoup pour favoriser l’accession des plus modestes aux #études supérieures. Puis est survenue la #régression.
Today this story is stalled. At the top of the prestige pyramid, in highly selective colleges like those of the Ivy League, students from the bottom income quartile in our society make up around 5 percent of the enrollments. This meager figure is often explained as the consequence of a regrettable reality: qualified students from disadvantaged backgrounds simply do not exist in significant numbers. But it’s not so.