Top Student, Top School?: How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College Book PDF, ePub eBook

Alexandria Walton Radford

Top Student, Top School?: How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College.pdf

File Name: Top Student, Top School?: How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College.pdf
Size: 30.9 MB
Uploaded: 2017-02-4 03:14:29

Status: AVAILABLE Last checked: 42 Minutes ago!

Rating: ★★★★★ 92 out of 100 based on 16328 user

Join our eBook service for unlimited books & audiobooks. Get a free 7 day subscription! ↓↓↓↓↓

Book Descriptions:

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, of RTI International, 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.

Radford traces valedictorians’ paths to college and presents damning evidence that high schools do not provide sufficient guidance on crucial factors affecting college selection, such as reputation, financial aid, and even the application process itself. Left in a bewildering environment of seemingly similar options, many students depend on their parents for assistance—and this allows social class to rear its head and have a profound impact on where students attend. Simply put, parents from less affluent backgrounds are far less informed about differences in colleges’ quality, the college application process, and financial aid options, which significantly limits their child’s chances of attending a competitive school, even when their child has already managed to become valedictorian.

Top Student, Top School? pinpoints an overlooked yet critical juncture in the education process, one that stands as a barrier to class mobility. By focusing solely on valedictorians, it shows that students’ paths diverge by social class even when they are similarly well-prepared academically, and this divergence is traceable to specific failures by society, failures that we can and should address.

Watch an interview of Alexandria Walton Radford discussing her book here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F81c1D1BpY0

Top Student, Top School?: How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College by Alexandria Walton Radford

From reader reviews:

Mary McDonald:

Do you have favorite book? If you have, what is your favorite's book? Reserve is very important thing for us to learn everything in the world. Each guide has different aim as well as goal; it means that reserve has different type. Some people truly feel enjoy to spend their the perfect time to read a book. They can be reading whatever they get because their hobby is usually reading a book. Consider the person who don't like reading a book? Sometime, person feel need book if they found difficult problem or exercise. Well, probably you'll have this Top Student, Top School?: How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College.

Beatrice Raybon:

Now a day those who Living in the era just where everything reachable by connect with the internet and the resources within it can be true or not involve people to be aware of each facts they get. How individuals to be smart in getting any information nowadays? Of course the answer is reading a book. Reading through a book can help individuals out of this uncertainty Information specially this Top Student, Top School?: How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College book since this book offers you rich data and knowledge. Of course the knowledge in this book hundred percent guarantees there is no doubt in it you know.

Robin Harvey:

Are you kind of busy person, only have 10 as well as 15 minute in your moment to upgrading your mind talent or thinking skill possibly analytical thinking? Then you have problem with the book as compared to can satisfy your short space of time to read it because this all time you only find guide that need more time to be read. Top Student, Top School?: How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College can be your answer given it can be read by anyone who have those short spare time problems.

Julie Chambers:

Do you like reading a guide? Confuse to looking for your favorite book? Or your book seemed to be rare? Why so many question for the book? But virtually any people feel that they enjoy intended for reading. Some people likes examining, not only science book but also novel and Top Student, Top School?: How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College or perhaps others sources were given know-how for you. After you know how the great a book, you feel want to read more and more. Science guide was created for teacher or even students especially. Those books are helping them to include their knowledge. In other case, beside science book, any other book likes Top Student, Top School?: How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College to make your spare time considerably more colorful. Many types of book like here.

How it works:

1. Register a free 1 month Trial Account.
2. Download as many books as you like (Personal use)
3. Cancel the membership at any time if not satisfied.