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Tearing down the gates : confronting the class divide in American education / Peter Sacks.

by Sacks, Peter.

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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Educational equalization -- United States.

Discrimination in education -- United States.

Social classes -- United States.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip074/2006036216.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0739/2006036216-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0739/2006036216-b.html

9780520245884 (cloth : alk. paper)

0520245881 (cloth : alk. paper)

xi, 376 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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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