Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9780520932234
0520932234
9781429471770
1429471778
0520245881
9780520245884
9780520245884
9780520261693
0520261690
1281752436
9781281752437
9786611752439
6611752439
1433709732
9781433709739
|
|---|
| Digital file characteristics: | data file
|
|---|
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-363) and index.
English.
Print version record.
|
|---|
| Summary: | We often hear about the growing divide between rich and poor in America. This compelling exposé, backed by up-to-date research, locates the source of this trend where we might least expect to find it-in our schools. Written for a wide audience, Tearing Down the Gates is a powerful indictment of American education that shows how schools, colleges, and universities exacerbate inequality by providing ample opportunities for advantaged students while shutting the gates on the poor-and even the middle class. Peter Sacks tells the stories of young people and families as they struggle to negotiate th.
|
|---|
| Other form: | Print version: Sacks, Peter. Tearing down the gates. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520245884 0520245881
|
|---|
