Higher Education, It's One of Your Passions in Life

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A recent paper shows that at least 38 colleges are taking in more students from the top one % than from the bottom 60%. Many of those are ivy league schools. Now take for instance, harvard an why are those schools not doubling the number of students they take in? In your opinion, why don't they do this? It's gon to say. You're the one thocad.

Journalist, author, and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell joins Tyler for a conversation on Joyce Gladwell, Caribbean identity, satire as a weapon, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden, Harvard’s under-theorized endowment, why early childhood intervention is overrated, long-distance running, and Malcolm’s happy risk-averse career going from one “fur-lined rat hole to the next.”

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Recorded February 27th, 2017 Other ways to connect

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