For students hoping to get into a competitive college or university, high SAT scores are crucial. On today’s show, law professor and civil rights activist argues that the SAT is a more accurate measurement of family wealth, race and ethnicity than merit.
Then, The Uncommon Core, our series on offbeat college courses, continues with golf course management. We’ll also hear from a husband and wife research team going to great lengths to end the bedbug epidemic– including offering themselves up as food!
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Changing Our Understanding of Merit
- Lani Guinier is the first woman of color to be given tenure at Harvard Law School. She is a longtime civil rights advocate and author of several books, most recently The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America.
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Changing Our Understanding of Merit
The Uncommon Core: Golf Course Management
- From designing courses to managing the green, this Texas professor can teach you everything you need to know about golf – except how to play it.
- Find out more at this link.
They've Got Spirit
- Smith College in Northampton is among the nation's pre-eminent women's colleges -- and alma mater to several notable feminists, including Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan. So one thing people don't expect to find on campus is a cheerleading squad. Karen Brown brings us this story.
- You can listen to this story again at PRX.org.
Bed Bug Science
- The husband and wife team of Regine and Gerhard Gries are biologists at Simon Fraser University in Canada, who’ve given a lot of themselves for the sake of their research into the bed bug.
- You can read more about the research they conduct with colleague Robert Britton at phys.org.
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Bed Bug Science
The Myth of Pruitt-Igoe
- It was meant to be a modern housing marvel, but the public housing project known as Pruitt-Igoe, built in downtown St. Louis in the fifties, quickly became a nightmare. Roman Mars from the podcast 99% Invisible brings us the story.
- You can hear the full Director's Cut version of this story at PRX.org.
The Woody Allen Amazon Deal
- Todd Vanderwerff is culture editor for Vox and former TV editor at the Onion AV club. You can read his article: “Amazon’s Deal With Woody Allen is Historic — and Remarkably Stupid” at Vox.com
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The Woody Allen Amazon Deal
