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As someone who has written about schools and colleges for twenty years (or more if you include my academic stuff), I often feel obliged to add my two cents on the education topic du jour. For the past month, the punditry has been fixated on Harvard, college presidents, plagiarism, and all that — topics that I know a lot about. Where was my think-piece? 

I let the topic go by. Frankly, I struggled to care. I wrote one piece on antisemiticism on those elite campuses and sent out some tweets, but that’s all I could manage. Harvard only educates 7,000 students per year, so it is insane that this one school sucks up so much of the education intellectual energy. Outside of an elite group of writers and thinkers, who all attended Ivy League schools, people are talking about other stuff.

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