5.2.1 Equal opportunity, meritocracy and education

The deficit story of equal opportunity assumes that social and economic inequality is a result of

What is the main argument of the text?

Educational reforms based on the concept of equal opportunity fail

The deficit story of equal opportunity assumes that equal opportunity is

The concept of equal opportunity serves to reinforce and reproduce structures of

The deficit story of equal opportunity disregards

Any social and economic inequality that exists is legitimized as reflecting

The deficit story of equal opportunity presupposes the inherent

Educational reforms predicated on equal opportunity fail

The deficit story of equal opportunity assumes that any inequities along race, class, or gender lines are due to

Which author argues against competitive conceptions of equality of opportunity?

Which author examines the way that conventional measures of merit do not predict performance, but do track race and social class?

Which author defends a version of the meritocratic conception of equality of opportunity, where merit is understood as the combination of both talent and effort?

Which author argues that the meritocratic conception of equality of opportunity is mistaken and that we should instead be concerned with allocating jobs in accordance with luck egalitarianism and not merit or qualification?

Which author examines the way that merit must be grounded in an idea of what a good human life and good society is?

Which author addresses the inequalities that follow from familial partiality and proposes a framework for thinking about which ways of transmitting advantage are legitimate and which are not?

Which author defends the equal opportunity to contribute their talents to the production of certain social goods as a means to flourishing?

Which author argues that underlying any notion of merit in the meritocratic conception of equality of opportunity is a notion of efficiency that cannot ground strong claims of desert?

Which author examines the concepts of human nature and human potential as they apply to the educational context?

Which author examines the many values related to educational choice, including equality of opportunity, the value of education, parental partiality, and parents’ rights?

Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity requires that positions and goods be distributed solely in accordance with

Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity is opposed to

Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity has limitations, especially with respect to

If all the top university places are awarded to members of the upper class, enforcing Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity may

Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity does not distribute opportunities to develop 'merit'

Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity opposes discrimination based on

Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity is most commonly associated with the allocation of

Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity is welcomed for moving away from

Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity may be misplaced in the case of

Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity may preserve social inequalities between members of different