Justin's post below reminded me
of this article in the New York Times this morning:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/opinion/brooks-the-great-migration.html
Mr. Brooks raises the idea
meritocracy, an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth, in
his article The Great Migration. Many of you are the "Smart high school students from rural Nebraska, small-town Ohio and
urban Newark" who have the opportunity to attend a good school. Do you want
to return there after graduation? Mr. Brooks would guess not. The highly
educated relocate to a few particular areas. They tend to move to Washington,
Boston, San Jose, Raleigh-Durham and San Francisco. There, almost 50 percent of
the residents have at least a bachelors degree.
As Justin pointed out below,
those with college degrees are more likely to find employment. Well sure, after
all, that is why we are all here. But studies like the one conducted by Robert
Oprisko of Butler University suggest that half of the jobs in university
political science programs go to graduates of the top 11 schools (Harvard,
Princeton, Yale). If one has earned a degree from one of the other 100
degree-granting universities, his or her odds are not as good. Even these other
100 schools prefer not to hire the sort of graduates they themselves turn out.
They want the cream of the crop.
Mr. Brooks then goes on to
discuss the current administrations efforts to close the wealth gap and the
problems that have and will arise. I will spare you my opinions on the matter,
as I am sure they would not be well received.
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