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portada Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide us
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
384
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.1x15.5x4.1 cm
Weight
0.68 kg.
ISBN13
9781620976951
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Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide us

Evan Mandery (Author) · New Press · Hardcover

Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide us - Mandery, Evan

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Synopsis "Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide us "

The 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.Mandery--a professor at a public college that serves low- and middle-income students--contrasts 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 America's elite colleges shows us what's at stake in a faulty system--and what will be possible if we muster the collective will to transform it.

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