Anthony Abraham Jack, a native of Miami, received a scholarship to attend Gulliver Preparatory School, an elite private high school in South Florida. He went on to receive degrees from Amherst College and Harvard University. He is currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how―and why―disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors―and their coffers―to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they’ve arrived on campus. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This bracing and necessary book documents how university policies and cultures can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why these policies hit some students harder than others.
Despite their lofty aspirations, top colleges hedge their bets by recruiting their new diversity largely from the same old sources, admitting scores of lower-income black, Latino, and white undergraduates from elite private high schools like Exeter and Andover. These students approach campus life very differently from students who attended local, and typically troubled, public high schools and are often left to flounder on their own. Drawing on interviews with dozens of undergraduates at one of America’s most famous colleges and on his own experiences as one of the privileged poor, Jack describes the lives poor students bring with them and shows how powerfully background affects their chances of success.
If we truly want our top colleges to be engines of opportunity, university policies and campus cultures will have to change. Jack provides concrete advice to help schools reduce these hidden disadvantages―advice we cannot afford to ignore.
近几年,常有人说“寒门再难出贵子”,没想到这种情况在美国同样常见。 美国精英大学以富人家庭的孩子为主,根据家庭收入和高中时期的经历,可以划分为“家庭富裕且就读过精英高中的学生”(第一类)、“出身寒门但就读过精英高中的学生”(第二类)和“出身寒门且没读过精英高中的...
评分我是传统的中国小学、中学、大学、研究生一路上来的,家长眼中的绝对乖乖女。 我第一次走出国门,是大三的时候,去丹麦做交换生。 尽管国内我的家庭背景已经是北上广大城市的中产阶级了,但在丹麦,我就是书中那个妥妥的“双重贫困生”。 那个不知如何与同学交流,无法融入校园...
评分《寒门子弟上大学》The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students 早上写完毕设论文的一部分,中午不务正业但迫不及待地看起了这本书。这本书让我自然而然地想起了《优秀的绵羊》,同样是对于精英大学教育的批判只不过方面不同,同样文字吸引我...
评分看完后发现我是双重贫困生,我是一路从农村小学到农村高中上来的,只不过我读的不是精英大学。双重贫困生体现在:1:office hours 期间不会去寻找老师,除非学业迫不得已。我读大学期间我们也有office hours,然而我一次都没有去过,尽管我学习还可以。 我和书里的双重贫困生一...
评分外行人先说说我眼中的不足:这本书似乎没怎么用到统计学的方法,只有定性的分析,没有定量的准确的结论;基础教育方面国情不同,PP和DD的分法对我们来说不太适用 说说有价值的部分,在985five引起广泛关注的今天,这本书无疑为我们的大学生提供了一些参考。前几天听我家住海淀...
从一个很具体的人群切入,通过三组在精英大学来自不同阶级背景的学生的比较,非常具体又条理清楚的看到现在的学校制度下,贫困学生所经历的困境。很多意在帮助他们的措施也可能是进一步强化差异,没有考虑到心理层面带给学生的感受。阶级和教育题材书籍中的又一块砖。
评分内容很好,一共三章,在美国精英大学校园里:富裕家庭出身的学生和贫穷家庭出身的学生的互动和学业生活习惯程度;这两类学生和教授及行政人员互动的差异;学校为了加强贫穷学生的融入程度而推出的一些与初衷背道而驰的项目和措施。内容虽好但觉得深度不够,且有点啰嗦冗长。对于在美国的大学里工作过一段时间的人来说有点老生常谈。希望能激发更多更深层次的研究,也希望亚裔美国学生的情况能被研究一下…
评分作者是穷学生出身,成为学者之后研究穷学生怎样能更好适应精英大学的生活,以求让更多的穷学生像他一样成功实现阶级跃迁,真的很empowering。本书很好读,作者很有逻辑地把学生的testimony串起来了。"Access is not inclusion"。第三章真是令人震惊,鼓励穷学生做宿舍清洁工来赚钱这种政策太智障了,还好有作者这种学者让弱势群体得以发声,就这点就值得力荐。本书结论不是鼓励更多穷学生读私校成为privileged poor,而是鼓励更多公校能赋权。最后的attachments也很有意思,作者留白了很多值得研究的地方,比如亚裔完全不在研究样本里。从社达社会出来的学生的cultural shock和美国穷学生居然是差不多的,比如我看到office hours那一点感到很有共鸣。
评分对于上层社会而言,阶级是比肤色和种族更为直观的分界线。
评分整本书都在翻来覆去地打苦情牌,所以是怎样,让读者给你水滴筹啊?
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