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The Privileged Poor - How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (Paperback)
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The Privileged Poor - How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (Paperback)
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Loot Price R429
Discovery Miles 4 290
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An NPR Favorite Book of the Year "Breaks new ground on social and
educational questions of great import." -Washington Post "An
essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our
understanding of the lives of contemporary college students." -Paul
Tough, author of Helping Children Succeed "Eye-opening...Brings
home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame
squarely on elite institutions." -Washington Post "Jack's
investigation redirects attention from the matter of access to the
matter of inclusion...His book challenges universities to support
the diversity they indulge in advertising." -New Yorker The Ivy
League looks different than it used to. College presidents and
deans of admission have opened their doors-and their coffers-to
support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit
these students? In this bracing expose, Anthony Jack shows that
many students' struggles continue long after they've settled in
their dorms. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as
acceptance. This powerfully argued book documents how university
policies and campus culture can exacerbate preexisting inequalities
and reveals why some students are harder hit than others.
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