The High Status Track: Studies of Elite Schools and Stratification

The essays in this groundbreaking volume significantly advance our understanding of the process by which an elite school education provides graduates with distinctly favorable life chances. The authors examine the contemporary issue and controversy in the field of education (and society) which focuses on both the advantages and disadvantages of public versus private schooling. Those interested in issues of social stratification and its impact in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791400115
• ISBN13: 9780791400111
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.