Introduction: Producing success
Community, home, and school settings
The Wilton way: middle-class culture and practice
Parental support, interventions, and manipulations of policy
The role of the school: institutional advantaging
Student identity and practice
Identities for control and success: the acquisition of psychological capital
Teaching the "point-hungry" student: hypercredentialing in practice
Costs of personal advancement
"Generation stress" and school success
Alienation, marginalization, and incivility
Conclusions
Appendix: WBHS 2002 student survey.