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Top student, top school? : how social class shapes where valedictorians go to college /
Most of us think that valedictorians can write their own ticket. By reaching the top of their class they have proven their merit, so their next logical step should be to attend the nation's very best universities. Yet in Top Student, Top School?, Alexandria Walton Radford reveals that many vale...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, Illinois :
The University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Most of us think that valedictorians can write their own ticket. By reaching the top of their class they have proven their merit, so their next logical step should be to attend the nation's very best universities. Yet in Top Student, Top School?, Alexandria Walton Radford reveals that many valedictorians do not enroll in prestigious institutions. Employing an original five-state study that surveyed nine hundred public high school valedictorians, she sets out to determine when and why valedictorians end up at less selective schools, showing that social class makes all the difference. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781299474796 1299474799 022604114X 9780226041148 |