An Ivy League degree, high SAT scores and straight A's are starting to signify privilege, not achievement.
Opinion ColumnistNicholas Goldberg served 11 years as editor of the editorial page and is a former editor of the Op-Ed page and Sunday Opinion section.What’s with all these admissions by public officials about how awful school was and how badly they did? What happened to flaunting whatever educational credentials you have, and putting your best academic foot forward? Is Rep.
when it turned out he’d graduated 76th out of 85 in his class. “My recollection on this was inaccurate,” he confessed.Something is going on in the way we look at merit and achievement, the way we measure success. Being a top student is no longer necessarily a better story to tell than having struggled through school.California’s governor is seen as a son of privilege. But he’s been experimenting with reframing his life story around adversity and humble beginnings.
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