The Capitulation of MIT: A Conversation with Dorian Abbot
New Books in Higher Education
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The Cultural Revolution in China
China has learned a lesson from going through a politicized phase of science. They have switched and now they do their selection based on a big test. A Chinese colleague, Jun Yang, is an excellent example of how their merit system works. He grew up in a rural area in a family of poor rice farmers. But he was identified and brought into peaking university beta where he worked his butt off to be extremely successful.
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