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How the Ivy League Education System Broke America. Success in school is not the same thing as success in life.

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
We’re all trapped in a system that was built on a series of ideological assumptions that were accepted 70 or 80 years ago but that now look shaky or just plain wrong. The six deadly sins of the meritocracy have become pretty obvious.
Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years.”
As it happens, several types of schools are trying to make the entire school day look more like extracurriculars—where passion is aroused and teamwork is essential. Some of these schools are centered on “project-based learning,” in which students work together on real-world projects. The faculty-student relationships at such schools are more like the one between a master and an apprentice than that between a lecturer and a listener. To succeed, students must develop leadership skills and collaboration skills, as well as content knowledge. They learn to critique one another and exchange feedback. They teach one another, which is a powerful way to learn.
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One of the most powerful observations I’ve ever read. How will Montana respond?