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Poison ivy : how elite colleges divide us / Evan Mandery.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : The New Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: xviii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781620976951
  • 1620976951
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Contents:
Going up -- Falling off -- The top floor and the iron ceiling -- Finding the escalator -- Cracking the code -- Green fences-the games kids play -- The well-rounded man -- Affirmative action for rich whites -- Doing good -- The best and the brightest-building the meritocracy myth -- The doubly disadvantaged -- Learning to party -- How liberals become conservative -- Still separate, still unequal -- How Michael Lewis ruined baseball -- You say you want a revolution -- Making college pay -- We need you, Mr. Grassley -- One percent solutions -- Communities of opportunity -- Postscript: A plea to the privileged.
Summary: "An eye-opening look at how America's elite colleges and suburbs help keep the rich rich--making it harder than ever to fight the inequality dividing us today"-- Provided by publisher.
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Next Big Idea Book Club Nominee October 2022


An eye-opening look at how America's elite colleges and suburbs help keep the rich rich--making it harder than ever to fight the inequality dividing us today

The front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. Evan Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive "Ivy-plus" schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. And as a college degree continues to be the surest route to upward mobility, the inequality bred in our broken higher education system is now a principal driver of skyrocketing income inequality everywhere.

Mandery--a professor at a public college that serves low- and middle-income students--contrasts the lip service paid to "opportunity" by so many elite colleges and universities with schools that actually walk the walk. Weaving in shocking data and captivating interviews with students and administrators alike, Poison Ivy also synthesizes fascinating insider information on everything from how students are evaluated, unfair tax breaks, and questionable fundraising practices to suburban rituals, testing, tutoring, tuition schemes, and more. This bold, provocative indictment of America's elite colleges shows us what's at stake in a faulty system--and what will be possible if we muster the collective will to transform it.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Going up -- Falling off -- The top floor and the iron ceiling -- Finding the escalator -- Cracking the code -- Green fences-the games kids play -- The well-rounded man -- Affirmative action for rich whites -- Doing good -- The best and the brightest-building the meritocracy myth -- The doubly disadvantaged -- Learning to party -- How liberals become conservative -- Still separate, still unequal -- How Michael Lewis ruined baseball -- You say you want a revolution -- Making college pay -- We need you, Mr. Grassley -- One percent solutions -- Communities of opportunity -- Postscript: A plea to the privileged.

"An eye-opening look at how America's elite colleges and suburbs help keep the rich rich--making it harder than ever to fight the inequality dividing us today"-- Provided by publisher.

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