Choosing Colleges

Author: Patricia M. McDonough
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0791434788

Choosing Colleges: How Social Class and Schools Structure Opportunity

Based on interviews with students, parents, and counselors as well as case studies of the college guidance environments of a working-class public school, an upper-middle-class public school, a private preparatory school, and a Catholic school, McDonough examines the everyday experiences of high school seniors as they choose their colleges. Download Choosing Colleges: How Social Class and Schools Structure Opportunity from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The author shows that college choice is a more complex social and organizational reality than has been previously understood and shows how families and schools mutually influence individual student outcomes and our higher education opportunity structure. After half a century of increasing federal, state, and private investments in higher education, phenomenal growth in the number of colleges, and enrollments of Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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