Jencks and the Carnegie Commission: Not So Different Answers to Perhaps the Wrong Question.
Many Carnegie Commission publications and Christopher Jencks's book Inequality concern themselves heavily with the relationship between educational opportunity and socioeconomic status. Though they draw quite different conclusions, both nevertheless urge higher education to move in a direction which forces us to confront the question of whether we wish academic degrees to certify levels of competence or simply to summarize the total time and effort spent in educational activities.