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The SAT Isn’t What’s Unfair

The Atlantic

In this piece, the writer argues, “The SAT doesn’t create inequalities…It reveals them. Throwing the measurement away doesn’t remedy underlying injustices in children’s academic opportunities, any more than throwing a thermometer away changes the weather.”

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Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap

Journal of Free Black Thought

Creswell asks (and answers): Who is responsible for closing the racial achievement gap? In a powerful piece that implicates universities in perpetuating inequities, Creswell puts the responsibility to achieve on individuals. According to Glenn Loury: “Wonderful essay. Should be required reading everywhere!”

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Test Scores Count Again at MIT

Wall Street Journal

“The attack on merit and achievement has gained steam as more American universities have abandoned standardized test scores as an admissions requirement. So congratulations to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”

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The College-Admissions Process Is Completely Broken

The Atlantic

Selingo argues that the current application process is in desperate need of an overhaul: “While piles of applications and an ultra-low acceptance rate are certainly marks of popularity [Harvard accepted a record low 3.19% this year] , these things are in truth indications of a poorly designed system in need of long-overdue improvements.”

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The Takeover of America's Legal System

Common Sense

A groundbreaking piece on how the legal system in America is at risk of becoming “a totalitarian nightmare.” For anyone in the legal profession, or anyone interested in the future of American democracy, this piece by Sibarium is must-read.

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Yale Law Students for Censorship

Wall Street Journal

A recent protest by Yale Law School students prompted a Senior Judge to write a letter asking fellow judges to reconsider rewarding protesters with clerkships. The WSJ ed board warns, “Judge Silberman’s letter should, if nothing else, warn these students that there may be consequences for becoming campus censors.”

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Campus Free Speech Can’t Survive Cultural Change

The Atlantic

In response to Emma Camp’s NYT op-ed, David French writes that when it comes to protecting free speech, the First Amendment is necessary, but not sufficient—”A nation that values free speech should protect both the law and the culture of free speech…a nation that turns its heart away from free speech and open debate is a nation that will eventually change its laws. The First Amendment can’t protect free speech all by itself.”

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