In William Deresiewicz’s “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life,” a senior professor at Yale who also attended the school decades ago as an ...

William Deresiewicz’s July article for The New Republic, “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League,” launched a insightful, heated debate about the nature and meaning of education. In the newest edition ...

Over the years, I’ve come to believe that lack of ambition coupled with a congenital lazy streak saved me from becoming one of William Deresiewicz’s “Excellent Sheep.” A child of the upper-middle ...

The excellent first trailer for Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson's sheep-centric murder mystery has arrived. The Sheep ...

In his recent talk, William Deresiewicz, former Yale professor and author of “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life,” received applause, laughs and ...

Ex-Yale professor William Deresiewicz published an essay called “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” in the summer of 2008 that struck a societal nerve. How could attending Harvard, Yale, ...

There are perhaps no better exemplars of the products of our current meritocratic system than three of the most important recent figures in the education reform movement: Secretary of Education Arne ...

This book, in many ways, is a letter to my twenty-year-old self. It talks about the kinds of things I wish that someone had encouraged me to think about when I was going to college -- such as what the ...

A new book questioning whether an education at one of the country’s elite colleges prepares students to find true meaning in their lives is getting a lot of buzz in education circles this fall.

William Deresiewicz is an under­appreciated essayist and thinker, not to mention a literary critic whose acumen is comparable to James Wood’s. After writing an essay he felt was doomed to obscurity, ...