Private School, College Admissions and the Value of Education.
Abstract: In this article, I defend a proposal to cap the proportion of students admitted to elite colleges who were educated at elite, often private, schools to not more than the proportion of students who attend such schools in society as a whole. In order to defend this proposal, I draw on recent...
| Published in: | Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 448 - 462 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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