My latest New Yorker piece, "Most Likely to Succeed" is now up.
A couple of additional thoughts.
In some of the responses to the piece, I've seen some resistance to the idea that choosing NFL quarterbacks and choosing public school teachers represent the same category of problem. There are only a small number of NFL quarterbacks, and we are selecting candidates from a tiny pool of highly elite athletes. By contrast, we need a vast number of public school teachers and we're recruiting from an
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December 16, 2008 14:23
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