Full Version Class Rules: Exposing Inequality in American High Schools Review
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The promise of upward mobility is fundamental to the American Dream. Most people believe that education and hard work are the keys to success, but there is mounting evidence that this is not the case. "Class Rules" challenges the popular myth that high schools are the Great Equalizers.In this groundbreaking book, Cookson reveals why education reproduces inequality with clockwork precision. He shows that WHERE students go to high school?not their grades, test scores, or other achievements?is a powerful and lasting influence on their social-class trajectories.Cookson documents how high schools create enduring inequality through their socialization processes. He compares the cultures and curricula of five high schools that have contrasting social class compositions: an elite boarding school and public schools in a wealthy suburb, a middle-class neighborhood, a working-class rural community, and a low-income urban community. He describes how the structure, rites of passage, and class consciousness in each school reproduce social-class inequality. He offers a breakthrough social/psychological theory of how adolescents acquire class consciousness, and shows how class structure and inequality are ?baked into? the system.The book offers a fresh vision of an equitable and dynamic system of schools based on the full democratic rights of students. It is designed to help educators, policymakers, and others recognize the magnitude of the problem and confront the serious ways that social-class inequality shapes the culture and structure of high schools. It calls for a national mission of equity of educational opportunity.
The promise of upward mobility is fundamental to the American Dream. Most people believe that education and hard work are the keys to success, but there is mounting evidence that this is not the case. "Class Rules" challenges the popular myth that high schools are the Great Equalizers.In this groundbreaking book, Cookson reveals why education reproduces inequality with clockwork precision. He shows that WHERE students go to high school?not their grades, test scores, or other achievements?is a powerful and lasting influence on their social-class trajectories.Cookson documents how high schools create enduring inequality through their socialization processes. He compares the cultures and curricula of five high schools that have contrasting social class compositions: an elite boarding school and public schools in a wealthy suburb, a middle-class neighborhood, a working-class rural community, and a low-income urban community. He describes how the structure, rites of passage, and class consciousness in each school reproduce social-class inequality. He offers a breakthrough social/psychological theory of how adolescents acquire class consciousness, and shows how class structure and inequality are ?baked into? the system.The book offers a fresh vision of an equitable and dynamic system of schools based on the full democratic rights of students. It is designed to help educators, policymakers, and others recognize the magnitude of the problem and confront the serious ways that social-class inequality shapes the culture and structure of high schools. It calls for a national mission of equity of educational opportunity.
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