What is NOT true about higher education in the United States?
A. The American system of higher education is so big and varied that it provides broad opportunities for youths from lower- and middle-class families to prepare themselves for careers that raise them above the level of their parents.
B. The American system of higher education is so steeply stratified that it stifles social mobility under the politically palatable banner of academic merit. Of course, both are true. The system is relatively open to the ambitious and talented, but it is also remarkably successful at reproducing the privilege of the privileged.
C. Both are true.
D. Neither are true.
C. Both are true.
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A. 12 B. 24 C. 38 D. 52
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A. Fifteenth B. Twenty-sixth C. Fourteenth D. Nineteenth