Permissible Advantage?: The Moral Consequences of Elite Schooling

by Alan Peshkin

Book Overview

This study of Edgewood Academy--a private, elite college preparatory high school--examines what moral choices look like when they are made by the participants in an exceptionally wealthy school, and what the very existence of a privileged school indicates about American society. It extends Peshkin's ongoing exploration of U.S. high schools and their communities, each focused in a different sociocultural setting. In this particular inquiry, he began...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805824677
• ISBN13: 9780805824674
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"