{"id":1476,"date":"2012-10-03T17:31:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T17:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2012-10-03T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T17:31:27","slug":"our-educational-meritocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/03\/our-educational-meritocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Our educational &#8220;meritocracy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College graduates are in for a rude awakening<br \/>\nGrade inflation has spawned a generation of graduates convinced they&#8217;re exceptional. They&#8217;re not<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/10\/03\/college_graduates_are_in_for_a_rude_awakening\/\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/10\/03\/college_graduates_are_in_for_a_rude_awakening\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>None of the articles I read yesterday or today grabbed me, but this one did.  I really like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Social scientists have established that the <a href=\"http:\/\/stuffwhitepeoplelike.com\/2008\/01\/22\/17-gifted-children\/\">last non-gifted white child<\/a> in America was born in Reseda, California, in 1962.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn I am special!  So is my wife (hell, she married me, that makes her one in 7 billion!).  My boy is so much smarter than any other kid who is dumber than he is!  America the exceptional!  The only nation where 90% of the population is in the top 10%!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College graduates are in for a rude awakening Grade inflation has spawned a generation of graduates convinced they&#8217;re exceptional. They&#8217;re not http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/10\/03\/college_graduates_are_in_for_a_rude_awakening\/ None of the articles I read yesterday or today grabbed me, but this one did. I really like this: Social scientists have established that the last non-gifted white child in America was born &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/03\/our-educational-meritocracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our educational &#8220;meritocracy&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-psychology","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}