{"id":17518,"date":"2016-02-23T09:29:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T15:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=17518"},"modified":"2016-03-11T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:30:14","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-february-23-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/17518","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday &#8212; February 23, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/02\/tyranny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17517\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/02\/tyranny-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tyranny of the Meritocracy\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tyranny of the Meritocracy<\/strong><br \/>\nDemocratizing Higher Education in America<br \/>\nby Lani Guinier<br \/>\n<a title=\"call number\" href=\"http:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/WW:default_scope:UWI71340084190002121\" target=\"_blank\">LA227.4 .G85 2015<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>New Arrivals<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>Lani Guitier&#8217;s new book attempts to answer the question of why our so-called meritocracy can often be so unfair to many. She focuses on how our system of higher education often reinforces this unfair system by granting those already benefiting from wealth and privilege the best access to the best education. She articulates a call for a more inclusive vision of how we determine who has &#8220;merit&#8221;&#8211;arguing that we should not rely on standardize testing and instead focus on a holistic evaluation of the whole person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tyranny of the Meritocracy Democratizing Higher Education in America by Lani Guinier LA227.4 .G85 2015 New Arrivals, 2nd floor Lani Guitier&#8217;s new book attempts to answer the question of why our so-called meritocracy can often be so unfair to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/17518\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[502,1218,24444,110668],"class_list":["post-17518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-democracy","tag-diversity","tag-higher-education","tag-meritocracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17617,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518\/revisions\/17617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}