Poison Ivy (eBook)

How Elite Colleges Divide Us

Evan Mandery (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-722-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Next Big Idea Book ClubNominee October 2022An eye-opening look at how Americas elite colleges and suburbs help keep the rich richmaking it harder than ever to fight the inequality dividing us todayThe front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. Evan Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive Ivy-plus schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. And as a college degree continues to be the surest route to upward mobility, the inequality bred in our broken higher education system is now a principal driver of skyrocketing income inequality everywhere.Manderya professor at a public college that serves low- and middle-income studentscontrasts the lip service paid to opportunity by so many elite colleges and universities with schools that actually walk the walk. Weaving in shocking data and captivating interviews with students and administrators alike, Poison Ivy also synthesizes fascinating insider information on everything from how students are evaluated, unfair tax breaks, and questionable fundraising practices to suburban rituals, testing, tutoring, tuition schemes, and more. This bold, provocative indictment of Americas elite colleges shows us whats at stake in a faulty systemand what will be possible if we muster the collective will to transform it.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.10.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Schlagworte: admissions testing • Affirmative Action • alumni donations • applying to college • athletic preference • campus life • College admissions • College admissions scandal • College Board • discrimination in college admissions • diversity in admissions • Elite Colleges • elite schools • Harvard • income inequality • Inequality • Ivy League • legacy admissions • Low-Income Students • operation varsity blues • Poor Students • private colleges • race and college • race and higher education • race in admissions • racism and college • SAT • Social Inequality • students of color and college • Title IX • Title Nine • white privilege and college campus
• ISBN-10: 1-62097-722-2 / 1620977222
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62097-722-4 / 9781620977224