Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality

Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality

By
Elizabeth A. Armstrong
Elizabeth A. Armstrong,
Laura Hamilton
Laura Hamilton
2013

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326 books

Nonfiction

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Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
No god but God
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
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42 books

Education

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Robot-Proof
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong
Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School
Despite the Best Intentions
Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education
The Ambitious Elementary School: Its Conception, Design, and Implications for Educational Equality

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20 books

Inequality

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Adam
Winners Take All
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy
The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America
The Privileged Poor
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy

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723 books

Non Fiction

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Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family
August Wilson: A Life
The Year of Lear : Shakespeare in 1606
Shakespeare in Parts
The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice
The British Are Coming
The Woman They Could Not Silence

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8 books

Education

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Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
Fed Up with Lunch: The School Lunch Project
Getting schooled
Creating Reading Rainbow: The Untold Story of a Beloved Children's Series
The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing — But You Don't Have to Be
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Educated: A Memoir

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27 books

Edu 100

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Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
'I Won't Learn from You'
36 Children
Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
Stupidity and Tears: Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession