The Tyranny of the Meritocracy

The Tyranny of the Meritocracy

By
Lani Guinier
Lani Guinier
2016 • 176 pages

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312 books

Considered

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Annie
The Science Delusion
Before the Big Bang
When Dimple Met Rishi
Anna and the French Kiss
Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age
Design in nature
Be Angry But Don't Blow It

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326 books

Nonfiction

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Adam
Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
No god but God
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Crossworld

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42 books

Education

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Adam
Robot-Proof
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong
Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School
Despite the Best Intentions
Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education
The Ambitious Elementary School: Its Conception, Design, and Implications for Educational Equality

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20 books

Inequality

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Adam
Winners Take All
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy
The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America
The Privileged Poor
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy