America Must Work Harder for Homegrown Talent
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-01/america-must-look-harder-for-its-high-ability-low-income-homegrown-talent
Adrian Wooldridge notes:
American education has always involved a tug of war
between those who emphasize equality and those who emphasize opportunity. But
in recent years, the egalitarians have been winning decisively, and their
mantra of “diversity, equity and inclusion” is in danger of crowding out
serious thought…
“Equity” is a code word for “equality of result” as
compared with “equality of opportunity.” Societies and institutions that have
emphasized the first rather than the second of these two versions of equality
have historically produced only equality of failure: Given individual
differences in ability and energy, you can only produce equality of result by
depriving people of their freedom and confiscating the fruit of their labor.