Tearing down the gates : confronting the class divide in American education /

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Author / Creator:Sacks, Peter.
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 376 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11152638
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ISBN:9780520932234
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-363) and index.
English.
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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

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505 0 |a I. Rich families, poor families. Ashlea and Gillian -- "Do we look intimidating?" -- II. Struggle for the soul of public schools. Berkeley High and the politics of exclusion -- "Do I make the kids smart or get them into college?" -- Public schools, private privilege -- III. Affirmative action for the rich. Class matters -- Part church, part car dealer -- A social compact broken -- Government gifts to the rich -- IV. Experiments in gatecrashing and the backlash of the elites. A dangerous man -- The gatecrashers -- "I always imagined myself as a rock" -- V. American dreams. How we got here -- Class confusions -- Where are we going? 
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