The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
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An NPR Favorite Book of the Year
Winner of the Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association
Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award
Winner of the CEP–Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship
Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
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 differ...
Winner of the Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association
Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award
Winner of the CEP–Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship
Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
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 differ...




















