http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-nelson/there-are-no-top-tier-colleges_b_1116646.html
Steve Nelson
Head of the Calhoun School in Manhattan
There Are No “Top Tier” Colleges, Schools (or Kids!)
Posted: 11/29/11 06:12 PM ET
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Last week I visited a school called the Young Women’s Leadership School (YWLS) in East Harlem. Founded in the 1990s, YWLS was the first single-sex school in the New York City public school system. Its mission, which it fulfills admirably, is to prepare girls for college. Its students are almost all girls of color from families with limited resources and little experience with college.
Despite my admiration for the school’s mission, a nearly ubiquitous underlying assumption about kids and educational institutions arose during a meeting with the YWLS college placement director. The two students “guiding” my small tour group were sitting nearby as he explained the college admission process.
“Well,” (I paraphrase) “we have many kinds of girls in the school but they all go to college. We have smart girls who go to top tier colleges, we have average girls who go to the typical places and we have girls who struggle, but we get them into college, too.” I cringed, as I had taken a few moments to talk to both student guides about their plans and knew that one was hoping to attend Long Island University and the other aspired to enroll at Manhattan College. I don’t know whether the college counselor thought of these girls as “average” or “struggling,” but the looks on their faces betrayed their certain sense that they were not the “smart” ones.
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[JR: If imho MC had an aggressive "social media" strategy, then MC would be in converstation with those young women to help them find the right school. Which may or may not be MC.]
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