Title: Tearing Down the Gates
First published: 2007
Description: We often hear about the growing divide between rich and poor in America. This compelling expose, backed by up-to-date research, locates the source of this trend where we might least expect to find it--in our schools. Written for a wide audience, Tearing Down the Gates is a powerful indictment of American education that shows how schools, colleges, and universities exacerbate inequality by providing ample opportunities for advantaged students while shutting the gates on the poor--and even the middle class.  Woven throughout with voices of Americans both rich and poor, Tearing Down the Gates describes a disturbing situation that has the potential to undermine the American dream, not just for some, but for all of us. At the heart of this book is a question of justice, and Sacks demands that we take a hard look at what equal opportunity really means in the United States today.
Subjects: Educational equalization, Discrimination in education, Social classes, Nonfiction, Politics, Sociology, Chancengleichheit, Bildungssystem, Undervisningsväsen, Sociala klasser, Diskriminierung, Sociala aspekter, Social classes, united states
Places: United States
LC classification: LC213.2 .S23 2007