testing measures. many elite colleges take in more students from the top 1% of the income distribution than from the bottom 60%. it cannot be those millions of students have no talent. it's just that we don't have a good enough mechanism to find them. elite chejs should be taken it many more students anyway. endowments have grown, they the class sizes from expanded very slowly. this emphasis on access should animate politicians. the biggest problem with the american education is that is does very badly for poor kids. as dan points out. comprehensive separates the rich from the rest in an unequal america. the educational gap between the rich and poor today is greater than between blacks and whites in 1954. when brown vs. board of education out lawed school s