David Brooks: How the Meritocrats Broke America — David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing

This post is a new piece by David Brooks, recently published online at Atlantic.  Here’s a link to the original. He’s writing about the way the meritocratic elite — grounded in exclusive educational credentials — has upended the American class structure.   The class structure of Western society has gotten scrambled over the past few decades. […]

David Brooks: How the Meritocrats Broke America — David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing