The Rules of the Game
June 5, 2009
It’s a relatively trivial thing in the broader landscape of college access and success, but in this article on the latest trick for buying (literally) time on overdue assignments (emailing a professor a deliberately corrupted file that one has bought online and then sending the actual assignment only after the professor discovers the problem days later) is this:
Who are the best customers? “Not to anyone’s surprise, but my best clients are from Ivy and top tier schools. I guess the more perfect people think you are, the more likely in life you are to cheat to keep that perception.”
While so many first -generation college students are struggling to figure out the rules of the college game that no one will explain, at least some students for whom college is a family legacy simply don’t consider that the rules do apply to them.
Social Class Links 06/05/2009
June 5, 2009
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Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality – Pathways
The new issue of Pathways, with good articles on global responses to poverty and inequality.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
