The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

Jack, Anthony Abraham

ISBN 10: 0674976894 / ISBN 13: 9780674976894

Verlag: Harvard University Press (edition 1), 2019

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0674976894-8-1-29

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
• Verlag: Harvard University Press (edition 1)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0674976894
• ISBN-13: 9780674976894
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1.
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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An NPR Favorite Book of the Year
Winner of the Critics Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association
Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award
Winner of the CEPMildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship
Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize

Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals howand whydisadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.

The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doorsand their coffersto support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after theyve arrived on campus. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This bracing and necessary book documents how university policies and cultures can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why these policies hit some students harder than others.

Despite their lofty aspirations, top colleges hedge their bets by recruiting their new diversity largely from the same old sources, admitting scores of lower-income black, Latino, and white undergraduates from elite private high schools like Exeter and Andover. These students approach campus life very differently from students who attended local, and typically troubled, public high schools and are often left to flounder on their own. Drawing on interviews with dozens of undergraduates at one of Americas most famous colleges and on his own experiences as one of the privileged poor, Jack describes the lives poor students bring with them and shows how powerfully background affects their chances of success.

If we truly want our top colleges to be engines of opportunity, university policies and campus cultures will have to change. Jack provides concrete advice to help schools reduce these hidden disadvantagesadvice we cannot afford to ignore.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anthony Abraham Jack is the Inaugural Faculty Director of the Newbury Center and Associate Professor of Higher Education Leadership at Boston University. He has written for the New York Times and the Washington Post, and his research has been featured on The Open Mind, All Things Considered, and CNN. The Privileged Poor was named an NPR Books Best Book of 2019.