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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you know that he's a good journalist on education specifically?[/quote]

Because. I. Read. The. Book.

It is well-researched and well-argued. I'm university professor and part of my job is evaluating research and scholarship by other people, and this struck me as a very solid and persuasive book, overall. FWIW, it also received numerous excellent reviews. Did I agree with every single statement in it? No, of course not. There were a few bits where I thought he needed more, or didn't ask questions he should have asked or discuss issues he should have discussed, etc. But as a product, myself, of several super-duper elite institutions (fancy prep school, fancy college, fancy scholarship to fancy foreign country, fancy professional school, and succession of fancy jobs at elite institutions and universities), and with kids at an expensive elite private school, I found the book thought-provoking and useful. It made me think somewhat differently about how to steer my own children when college frenzy begins.

Read it and judge for yourself. Maybe it will not change your views, but maybe it will.[/quote]

or they can just stay in academia forever. [/quote]

Right, because academics are completely unqualified to comment on education. Seriously, PP, you are so resistant to acknowledging even the possibility of new information that I suspect you’d reject new ideas handed down directly from a divine power. In your view, is there anyone in the world qualified to provide you with valid new insights? If you are this hostile to hearing new perspectives at work, maybe you really are Donald Trump. Otherwise, what’s so hard about saying something polite? “Thanks, I haven’t read that book, and I’m not sure I will agree with it, but I’m always happy to get new recommendations.”

Or, better still, if you have nothing helpful to say, you could just refrain from commenting.

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