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September 4th 2014: Is the IVY League Broken?

With his #1 best selling book, Excellent Sheep, award-winning essayist and critic Bill Deresiewicz set his sights, "on the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and continues into college." Join BtS Radio as we talk with the former Yale professor about, "how college should be a time for self-discovery, when young people can establish their own values and measures of success in order to forge their own path," instead of a factory where students are "losing the ability to think for themselves."

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Bill Deresiewicz

Award-winning essayist and critic William Deresiewicz was a Professor at Yale University from 1998-2008. His essay, “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education”
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