Class struggle
Subtitle: what's wrong (and right) with America's best public high schools
By: Jay Mathews.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Times Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Mamaroneck High School (Mamaroneck, N.Y.); Upper class -- Education (Secondary) -- United States -- Case studies.; Public schools -- United States -- Case studies.; Elite (Social sciences) -- United States -- Case studies.; Social status -- United States -- Case studies.
Description: Using Mamaroneck High School in Westchester County, New York, as his primary case study, Mathews examines the realities of the top public high schools in the United States. He offers "a penetrating view of the competing -- and often damaging -- forces that nurture the Ivy League goals of the academic and economic elite while often squashing the less glamorous ambitions of the rest."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes indexes.