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
Subject:	Educational equalization -- United States. Discrimination in education -- United States. Social classes -- United States. Discrimination in education. Educational equalization. Social classes. United States. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11152638

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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

Table of Contents:

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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