The meritocratic myth

Washington Monthly, June, 2005 by Charles Peters

> Richard Kahlenberg, whose work has often appeared in these pages, most recently in the last issue, has completed research that shows, according to U.S. News, that "low income students with the highest scores are no more likely to go to college than affluent students with the lowest scores." This is another reason why both Kahlenberg and this magazine have long contended that we should have affirmative action not for racial minorities but for people of low income