Class warfare : class, race, and college admissions in top-tier secondary schools / Lois Weis, Kristin Cipollone, and Heather Jenkins.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Class, race, and college admissions in a changing US context -- Schooling in privileged spaces -- Class practices and the college process in a suburban, public high school: creating distinction around the highly selective college-going self -- Micromanaging the college admissions process: leaving nothing to chance at Matthews Academy -- "Outsiders within": relative opportunities for low-income black students in elite private secondary schools -- Race and class matters -- Class, race, and postsecondary destinations in new global circumstances -- Epilogue: details and reflections on theory and methods.

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Stories abound about the lengths to which middle- and upper-middle-class parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning Kumon courses, students are increasingly pushed to excel with that Harvard or Yale acceptance letter held tantalizingly in front of them. And nowhere is this drive more apparent than in our elite secondary schools. In Class Warfare, Lois Weis, Kristin Cipollone, and Heather Jenkins go inside the ivy-yearning halls of three such schools to offer a d.

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