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Class and Higher Education Resources
Institute for Higher Education Policy
Policy reports and studies from this non-profit, non-partisan organization whose mission is to foster access and success in postsecondary education.
College and Social Class: the Broken Promise of America
What if the geography of success in school, and using schools for personal success, almost perfectly mirrors previously established patterns of relative class privilege?
Community Colleges and Class: A Short History
This essay examines the contradictory role of the community college historically, reflecting its function in preserving the American class system.
Campus Revolutionary
Tony Marx has a radical plan to get more poor kids into top schools, starting with Amherst College.
A Legacy of Legacies
This 2004 Op Ed tackles on of Higher Education's most sacrosanct class issues.
Books on Class and Education
Ball, S.J. (2003). Class strategies and the education market: The middle classes and social advantage. London and New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
________ (2006). Education policy and social class: The selected works of Stephen J. Ball. London and New York: Routledge.
Bowen, W.G., Kurzweil, M.A., & Tobin, E.M. (2005). Equity and excellence in American higher education. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press.
Bettie, J. (2003). Women without class: Girls, race, and identity. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.
Biddle, B.J. (Ed.). (2001). Social class, poverty, and education: Policy and practice. London and New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
Books, S. (2004). Poverty and schooling in the U.S.: Contexts and consequences. New Jersey and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Brantlinger, E., (2003). Dividing classes: How the middle class negotiates and rationalizes school advantage. London and New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
Compton-Lilly, C. (2004). Confronting racism, poverty, and power: Classroom strategies to change the world. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann.
Cushman, K. (2005). First in the family: Advice about college from first-generation students. Your high school years. Providence, Rhode Island: Next Generation Press.
Howell, W.G., & Peterson, P.E. (2002). The education gap: Vouchers and urban schools. Revised edition. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Johnson, H.B., (2006). The American dream and the power of wealth: Choosing schools and inheriting inequality in the land of opportunity. New York and London: Routledge.
________. (2000. A notion at risk: Preserving public education as an engine for social mobility. New York: The Century Foundation Press.
Kahlenberg, R.D. (Ed.). (2004). America’s untapped resource: Low-income students in higher education. New York: The Century Foundation Press.
Kinchelore, J.L., & Steinberg, S.R., (Eds.). (2007). Cutting class: Socioeconomic status and education. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth U.K.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Jones, S., (2006). Girls, social class, and literacy: What teachers can do to make a difference. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann.
Lareau, Annette (2000) Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education, New York: Roman and Littlefield
Lawton, D., (1968). Social class, language and education. London: Routledge.
Loveless, T., & Hess, F.M. (Eds.). (2007). Brookings papers on education policy: 2006/2007. Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution Press.
Lynch, K., & Lodge, A., (2002). Equality and power in schools: Redistribution, recognition and representation. London and New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
Maher, F.A., & Tetreault, M.K.T., (2007). Privilege and diversity in the academy. New York and London: Routledge.
Mishel, L, & Roy, J., (2006). Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends. Washington, D.D.: Economic Policy Institute.
Reay, D., (1998). Class work: Mothers’ involvement in their children’s primary schooling. RoutledgeFalmer.
Schmidt, Peter., Color and Money: How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action. Palgrave Macmillan.
Shepard, A., McMillan J., & Tate, G., (Eds.). (1998). Coming to class: Pedagogy and the social class of teachers. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann.
Van Galen, J.A., & Noblit, G.W., (Eds.). (2007). Late to class: Social class and schooling in the new economy. State University of New York Press.
Weis, L., (2004). Class reunion: The remaking of the American white working class. New York and London: Routledge.
West, M.R., & Peterson, P.E., (Eds.). (2007). School money trials: The legal pursuit of educational adequacy. Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution Press. by Annette Lareau, , 2000
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