Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education

Peter Sacks

ISBN 10: 0520245881 / ISBN 13: 9780520245884

Editore: University of California Press, 2007

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Riassunto:

A compelling critique of the American educational system explains how the growing inequities between rich and poor is exacerbated by offering the advantaged ample opportunites while shutting out the poor, arguing that we need to take a hard look at the implications of equal opportunity in America today.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Peter Sacks is an author, essayist, and social critic who writes and speaks extensively on education and American culture. He is author ofGeneration X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern Americaand Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We can do to Change it. His essays have appeared inThe Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Boston Review, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and other publications.

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Titolo: Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the ...
Casa editrice: University of California Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket