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It is not diversity that leads to mediocrity. It is the substitution of identity for inquiry and reasoning.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/opinion/university-campus-diveristy-inclusion-free-speech.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage#commentsContainer

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A Learning Institution

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Chamorro-Premuzic, writing in the Harvard Business Review, makes the case that “valid tests help companies measure three critical elements of success on the job: competence, work ethic, and emotional intelligence” and that “research shows that tests for such traits are much better predictors of performance than are years of experience or education."

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In K-12 schools, a parallel opt-out movement calls on parents to withdraw their children from some or all standardized testing which tracks student and teacher performance.

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While polymath inventors are less deep than the specialists, they tend to be even broader than the generalists. Schematically, polymaths resemble a T (broad + deep) or even a π (broad + double-deep). They’re like the “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who says, “I have a lot of apps open in my brain now.”

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Increasingly the advantage is going to generalists who have broad integrative skills.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/books/review/david-epstein-range.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

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But one of the most valuable gifts a liberal arts education can offer is the jarring and ultimately liberating realization that differences in money and social background do not, and cannot, explain everything.

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The more difficult truth is that a genuinely equitable society requires greater educational opportunities being extended to poor and disadvantaged children long before an adversity rating can be applied as a Band-Aid on their college applications.

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And so the dehumanizing message of the new adversity index is that America’s young people are nothing but interchangeable sociological points of data — and the jagged complexity of an individual life somehow can be sanded down, quantified and fairly contrasted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/opinion/sat-adversity-score.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

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ADMINISTRATORS' salaries have far outstripped professors

@Roberta I'm sure you've watched as ADMINISTRATORS' salaries have far outstripped professors, attempting, illogically, to keep up with private sector CEO salaries.  This is complete nonsense, and befuddled board members have fallen into this false equivalence trap.  This source of overhead contributes, to a much larger extent than it was ever intended, to the insane rise in tuition costs.