September 5, 2008

Degrees of Potential

Compiled by Evan R. GOLDSTEIN

According to Charles Murray, the American education system is based on a devastating lie: that every student has intellectual potential. "As long as it remains taboo to acknowledge that college is intellectually too demanding for most young people, we will continue to create crazily unrealistic expectations among the next generation," Murray writes in his new book, Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality (Crown Publishers).

The attempt to

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