The Inequality Machine
How universities are creating a more unequal world - and what to do about it
$33.67
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
5 April 2021
Summary
A damning expose of how the university system ingrains privilege and injustice at every level of American society.
“Indelible and extraordinary, a powerful reckoning with just how far we’ve allowed reality to drift from our ideals.” - Tara Westover, New York Times Book Review
We’re told that universities are our greatest driver of social mobility. But it’s a lie.
The Inequality Machine is a damning expose of how the university system ingrains injustice at every level o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784756376 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784756377 |
| Author: | Paul Tough |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 297g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 129mm x 199mm |
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Critics Review
A readable kiss-and-tell study … Tough finds that higher education, which has the potential to increase upward mobility, has become an obstacle that perpetuates social rigidity. The poor remain poor and the rich get richer … this study is laced with deep anger.
* Times Higher Education *Humanizes the process of higher education … Fascinating stories about efforts to remediate class disparities in higher education * New Yorker *
[Tough] writes movingly about students who are trying to navigate the confounding, expensive, and intimidating process of getting into and staying in college. * WIRED *
Important … Among his book’s many vital contributions are its portraits of schools and programs that model a better way. * New York Times *
Paul Tough is a beautiful reporter and writer and a deeply moral guide to understanding the situation of children in our heartless meritocracy … A great book that should start a necessary conversation. – George Packer, author of THE UNWINDING
A stunning piece of work … A completely absorbing narrative with some very surprising, trenchant analysis … A devastating report card on the American dream. It’s just a very special book. – Michael Pollen, author of HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND
A deeply reported and damning portrait of fraying American social mobility … A clear-eyed portrait of what a stacked game it really is. * Quartz *
Gorgeously reported. Vividly written. Utterly lucid. Paul Tough jumps skilfully between deeply engaging personal narratives and the bigger truths of higher education. The way he tells the stories of these students, it’s impossible not to care about them and get angry on their behalf. – Ira Glass, host of NPR’S THIS AMERICAN LIFE
A comprehensive, moving account of the inequalities that block many poor, minority and first-generation students from realizing the benefits of a college education. * Forbes *
[Tough’s] urgent account combines cogent data and artful storytelling to show how higher education has veered from its meritocratic ideals to exacerbate society’s inequality. – Editors’ Choice * New York Times Book Review *
Paul Tough
Paul Tough’s previous book, How Children Succeed, spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists and was translated into 27 languages. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to the public radio program This American Life.
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