Tearing Down the Gates
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Tearing Down the Gates

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Tearing Down the Gates

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We often hear about the growing divide between rich and poor in America. This compelling exposĂ©, 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 the educational system. He introduces students like Ashlea, who grew up in a trailer park and who would like to attend college, though she faces constant obstacles that many of her more privileged classmates can't imagine. Woven throughout with voices of Americans both rich and poor, Tearing Down the Gates describes a disturbing situation that has the potential to undermine the American dream, not just for some, but for all of us. At the heart of this book is a question of justice, and Sacks demands that we take a hard look at what equal opportunity really means in the United States today.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780520932234
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education General

Table of contents

  1. C o n t e n t s
  2. List of Figures and Tables
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Lost Illusions
  5. PART ONE: RICH FAMILIES, POOR FAMILIES
  6. 1. Ashlea and Gillian
  7. 2. “Do We Look Intimidating?”
  8. PART TWO: STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF PUBLICSCHOOLS
  9. 3. Berkeley High and the Politics of Exclusion
  10. 4. “Do I Make the Kids Smart or Get Them into College?”
  11. 5. Public Schools, Private Privilege
  12. PART THREE: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR THE RICH
  13. 6. Class Matters
  14. 7. Part Church, Part Car Dealer
  15. 8. A Social Compact Broken
  16. 9. Government Gifts to the Rich
  17. PART FOUR: EXPERIMENTS IN GATECRASHING AND THEBACKLASH OF THE ELITES
  18. 10. A Dangerous Man
  19. 11. The Gatecrashers
  20. 12. “I Always Imagined Myself as a Rock”
  21. PART FIVE: AMERICAN DREAMS
  22. 13. How We Got Here
  23. 14. Class Confusions
  24. 15. Where Are We Going?
  25. Appendix A: Supplementary Figures
  26. Appendix B: Supplementary Tables
  27. Notes
  28. Index