The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

by Anthony Abraham Jack

Book Overview

An NPR Favorite Book of the Year
Winner of the Critics' Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association
Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award
Winner of the CEP-Mildred Garc a Award for Exemplary Scholarship
Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize

Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how--and why--disadvantaged students struggle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674976894
• ISBN13: 9780674976894
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"