For all the posturing as Amtrak Joe, the president has fallen into the same elite trap that has captured our political system.

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The battle over Ivy League admissions focuses on a handful of elite schools and ignores deeper educational inequalities exacerbated by Covid-19.

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Several GOP candidates rode their Harvard resumes to victory

The Ivy League is broken and only standardized tests can fix it

Critics say the SAT puts minorities at a disadvantage in college admissions, but without it those groups would do even worse.

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The New Republic's article against elite education is destructive to my students

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