Tearing down the gates : confronting the class divide in American education / Peter Sacks.
Sacks, Peter.
2007
LC213.2 .S23 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Tearing down the gates : confronting the class divide in American education / Peter Sacks.
Author Sacks, Peter.
ISBN 9780520245884 (alk. paper)
0520245881 (alk. paper)
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Language English
Description xi, 376 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number LC213.2 .S23 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 379.2/60973
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-363) and index.
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I. Rich families, poor families. Ashlea and Gillian
"Do we look intimidating?"
II. Struggle for the soul of public schools. Berkeley High and the politics of exclusion
"Do I make the kids smart or get them into college?"
Public schools, private privilege
III. Affirmative action for the rich. Class matters
Part church, part car dealer
A social compact broken
Government gifts to the rich
IV. Experiments in gatecrashing and the backlash of the elites. A dangerous man
The gatecrashers
"I always imagined myself as a rock"
V. American dreams. How we got here
Class confusions
Where are we going?

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