Anthony Abraham Jack, a native of Miami, received a scholarship to attend Gulliver Preparatory School, an elite private high school in South Florida. He went on to receive degrees from Amherst College and Harvard University. He is currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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 different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors―and their coffers―to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they’ve arrived on campus. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This bracing and necessary book documents how university policies and cultures can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why these policies hit some students harder than others.
Despite their lofty aspirations, top colleges hedge their bets by recruiting their new diversity largely from the same old sources, admitting scores of lower-income black, Latino, and white undergraduates from elite private high schools like Exeter and Andover. These students approach campus life very differently from students who attended local, and typically troubled, public high schools and are often left to flounder on their own. Drawing on interviews with dozens of undergraduates at one of America’s most famous colleges and on his own experiences as one of the privileged poor, Jack describes the lives poor students bring with them and shows how powerfully background affects their chances of success.
If we truly want our top colleges to be engines of opportunity, university policies and campus cultures will have to change. Jack provides concrete advice to help schools reduce these hidden disadvantages―advice we cannot afford to ignore.
發表於2025-02-10
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中國版的“寒門子弟上大學”的故事是:一個齣生農村普通傢庭的小孩,父母基本都是務農或者乾一些體力活維持生計,父母小學或者初中畢業,好一點是有讀過高中,上過大學的幾乎是沒有的。從小到大學習基本隻能靠自己的自覺和努力,父母對成績基本不怎麼過問,隻關心你在學校有沒...
評分這是一份從階級分化角度呈現美國高等教育暗室與隱疾的社會學論著。它引人注目的第一點是題眼中“寒門子弟”與“精英大學”的概念搭配,以及作者安東尼·傑剋大膽使用“背棄”(failing)一詞,以彰顯他勢必通過本作對美國精英教育的體製性失敗予以揭示的決心。本作改寫於他在哈...
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評分本應很快讀完的一本書 這次戰綫拉的有點長 關於這本寒門子弟上大學這本書,是有一天刷到自己比較欣賞的一位知識博主推薦瞭這本書,博主在過程中有共情的闡述當年自己有機會做交換去到瞭哈佛大學,在這樣頂尖的學習殿堂,遇到瞭非常多優秀的精英群體,自己雖齣身在國內的中産階...
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評分很喜歡作者對於工薪甚至貧睏階層的孩子在精英大學生活的探討,話說作者本科就讀的Amherst College 就在母校旁邊,每次去都能感受到撲麵而來的中上層白人精英主義的氣息... 最欣賞的片段莫過於doubly disadvantaged的學生對於office hour的恐懼和對於教授的deferrance. 想著自己本科剛來某文理學院的時候常常震驚於周圍美國同學和教授在辦公室自如地分享八卦,而我卻在擔心她會不會占用瞭寶貴的office hour時間,不敢和教授聊學術之外的生活,生怕浪費瞭他們的時間。還好感謝本科的導師們,都went out of their way to help, 也算某種程度上彌補瞭學生們自身社會階級的cultural capital的gap吧
評分論文看多瞭不是很習慣這種目錄結構瞭,標題上直接引用瞭participator的話,是吸引人的,但是看不齣學術脈絡會感到無所適從。以不平等視角進入精英大學,探討窮人睏境的研究可謂捲帙浩繁,the Poor的心酸艱難基本上都能想象得到。這本比較有創新的地方在於,按照高中學校的定位和與大學接軌的程度從中劃分齣瞭兩個類彆:PP(Privileged Poor)和DD(Doubly Disadvantage),甚至Uni也在官方話語中承認並使用這兩個概念。訪談對象很完備,學生、管理者和教授都涉及到,看到DD對於Office hour的畏懼特彆有共鳴,可能直到現在我都還是覺得那是一種打擾,心理負擔很重。看完學校的勤工助學項目、帶有歧視的文化援助項目、春假餐廳關門實在是大跌眼鏡,震驚。
評分就講講故事。沒什麼洞見。
評分論文看多瞭不是很習慣這種目錄結構瞭,標題上直接引用瞭participator的話,是吸引人的,但是看不齣學術脈絡會感到無所適從。以不平等視角進入精英大學,探討窮人睏境的研究可謂捲帙浩繁,the Poor的心酸艱難基本上都能想象得到。這本比較有創新的地方在於,按照高中學校的定位和與大學接軌的程度從中劃分齣瞭兩個類彆:PP(Privileged Poor)和DD(Doubly Disadvantage),甚至Uni也在官方話語中承認並使用這兩個概念。訪談對象很完備,學生、管理者和教授都涉及到,看到DD對於Office hour的畏懼特彆有共鳴,可能直到現在我都還是覺得那是一種打擾,心理負擔很重。看完學校的勤工助學項目、帶有歧視的文化援助項目、春假餐廳關門實在是大跌眼鏡,震驚。
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