Class Warfare: Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools

by Kristin Cipollone, Heather Jenkins, Lois Weis

Stories abound about the lengths to which middle- and upper-middle-class parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning Kumon courses, students are increasingly pushed to excel with that Harvard or Yale acceptance letter held tantalizingly in front of them. And nowhere is this drive more apparent than in our elite secondary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022613492X
• ISBN13: 9780226134925
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"