A Physician's Rejoinder to Negative Secular Trends: Reframing Excellence in American Meritocracy and Educational Equity

Dr. Doroghazi's ironically titled “Negative Secular Trends in Medicine: Part X: The Dumbing Down of America,”1 renders a critique of a high school's realignment of honors classes “to boost equity.” Efforts to achieve equity in education, he claims, are “a threat to the basic fabric of our society.” These claims are not s upported by the evidence he cites, an article in the Wall Street Journal which he misinterprets and, in doing so, hastily conflates Tocqueville, the concept of meritocracy, and the concept of justice.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Letter Source Type: research