Monthly Archives: January 2025
Class Dismissed: A new book on educational inequalities in the US
A new book on educational inequalities entitled Class Dismissed – again published by Princeton University Press – argues that colleges in the US are good in terms of diversity but that students get very little cultural support along the way once they get into college.
The American Dream is over: Education and low social mobility in the US
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20220923080309467
A recent book published by Princeton University Press introduces us to the Gatsby Curve – a measure of how societies do in terms of intergenerational social mobility. The US is doing worse than even and other countries such as Norway, Finland and Denmark also do poorly.