Class Rules: Exposing Inequality in American High Schools

by Peter W. Cookson Jr.

Book Overview

Class Rules challenges the popular myth that high schools are the "great equalizers." In his groundbreaking study, Cookson demonstrates that adolescents undergo different class rites of passage depending on the social-class composition of the high school they attend. Drawing on stories of schools and individual students, the author shows that where a student goes to high school is a major influence on his or her social-class trajectory. Class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807754528
• ISBN13: 9780807754528
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"