Class Warfare: Driving Towards College Admissions in Top-Tier U.S. Secondary Schools

Dr. Lois Weis speaks at PennAHEAD

 

Drawing upon a two-year ethnographic investigation of three affluent and elite co-educational secondary schools in the U.S., this presentation highlights the explicit class work of a now highly insecure middle/upper-middle class, as parents and students attempt to maintain advantage via entrance to particularly located postsecondary destinations.