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Educating Elites : Class Privilege and Educational Advantage
Educating Elites : Class Privilege and Educational Advantage
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ISBN No.: 9781607094593
Pages: 220
Year: 201010
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 95.13
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

"A great collection. Elite schooling is important not only because it defines the ladders others must climb to move up in the world, but also because it represents powerful families' best guess about the future their children will inherit. Educating Elites quickly will become required reading for any serious student of inequality in America." --Mitchell L. Stevens, associate professor of education and sociology, Stanford University School of Education and author of Creating a Class: College "A fresh and interesting collection that contains a number of pieces by talented young scholars.highly recommended." --Annette Lareau, Stanley I.Sheerr Professor, University of Pennsylvania "Class counts, and it counts in crucial ways in education.


Adam Howard and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández have provided us with a set of important and nuanced analyses of how elite class institutions and understandings work in a system that is riven with class relations. This is a significant book for anyone who cares about elitism in education in this society." --Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison; author, cares about elitism in education in this society." --Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison; author, cares about elitism in education in this society." --Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison; author, cares about elitism in education in this society.


" --Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison; author,.


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