Class Struggle: What's Wrong (And Right) With America's Best Public High Schools - Tapa blanda

An education reporter for The Washington Post charges that the honors programs at America's elite public high schools are only serving the privileged children of the wealthy. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

s elite public high schools neglecting the potential of many students in favor of a select few?

Following the trail blazed by Jonathan Kozol's landmark books on inner-city schools, Jay Mathews examines America's elite suburban high schools and asks key questions about them: Do public high schools located in wealthy school districts succeed in providing all students with access to a quality education? What about students who have less ample means than their better-off classmates? In Class Struggle, Mathews brings into focus surprising and troubling revelations about America's most well-funded high schools.

Mathews spent three years taking the pulse of America's public high schools--including an extended stay at Mamaroneck High School in Westchester County, New York--to find out what they're doing right, what they're doing wrong, and how they could be doing much better. He emerges with a penetrating analysis of the competing forces that nurture the Ivy League goals of the acade