{"product_id":"9780674976894-the-privileged-poor","title":"The Privileged Poor","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students. Getting in is only half the battle. The struggles of less privileged students continue long after they’ve arrived on campus. Anthony Jack reveals how—and why—admission to elite schools does not mean acceptance for disadvantaged students, and he explains what schools can do differently to help the privileged poor thrive. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Favorite Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the CEP–Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGetting in is only half the battle. \u003ci\u003eThe Privileged Poor \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how—and why—disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In \u003ci\u003eThe Privileged Poor\u003c\/i\u003e, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they’ve arrived on campus. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This bracing and necessary book documents how university policies and cultures can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why these policies hit some students harder than others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite their lofty aspirations, top colleges hedge their bets by recruiting their new diversity largely from the same old sources, admitting scores of lower-income black, Latino, and white undergraduates from elite private high schools like Exeter and Andover. These students approach campus life very differently from students who attended local, and typically troubled, public high schools and are often left to flounder on their own. Drawing on interviews with dozens of undergraduates at one of America’s most famous colleges and on his own experiences as one of the privileged poor, Jack describes the lives poor students bring with them and shows how powerfully background affects their chances of success.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf we truly want our top colleges to be engines of opportunity, university policies and campus cultures will have to change. Jack provides concrete advice to help schools reduce these hidden disadvantages—advice we cannot afford to ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30397225369697,"sku":"9780674976894","price":20.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/4b540c1eb4919e74193287c15fba9b07_1131fd3b-6f97-466b-8a47-ce11e9ee58c1.jpg?v=1570538838","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674976894-the-privileged-poor","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}