#meritocracy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #meritocracy, aggregated by home.social.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 📝📊 The #SAT was first administered to 8,000 students in June 1926, born from #WorldWarI #military I.Q. tests designed by #Princeton psychologist and eugenicist Carl Brigham.
Now taken by two million #students annually, fewer than 10% of U.S. #colleges require it for fall 2026 admissions, a shift accelerated by the #Covid #pandemic and long standing debates about what the test actually measures. The article traces the test’s #evolution from a tool that helped break into the old boys’ network of elite colleges to an #exam whose scores strongly correlate with family #income.
#history #education #equity #meritocracy #publicschool #highschool #academics #policy #learning #criticalthinking #teaching
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classic example of how capitalists’ express their #parasitism and then call it a #meritocracy.
capitalist parasitism, what most people call #corruption, needs to be understood as one of hallmarks of #fascism