CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I: THE PROBLEM

CHAPTER ONE: Adonises with a Pimple

CHAPTER TWO: Aptitude or Achievement?

CHAPTER THREE: From Testocratic Merit to Democratic Merit

PART II: THE SOLUTION/S

CHAPTER FOUR: Taking Down Fences at University Park Campus School

CHAPTER FIVE: No Longer Lonely at the Top: The Posse Foundation

CHAPTER SIX: Democratic Merit in the Classroom: Eric Mazur and Uri Treisman

CHAPTER SEVEN: Six Ways of Looking at Democratic Merit

CHAPTER EIGHT: Democratic Merit in a Twenty-First-Century World

CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

INDEX