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Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us

By (author) Evan Mandery

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Next Big Idea Book ClubÂ Nominee October 2022 An eye-opening look at how Americaâ€™s elite colleges and suburbs help keep the rich richâ€”making it harder than ever to fight the inequality dividing us today The front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. Evan Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive â€œIvy-plusâ€ schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. And as a college degree continues to be the surest route to upward mobility, the inequality bred in our broken higher education system is now a principal driver of skyrocketing income inequality everywhere. Manderyâ€”a professor at a public college that serves low- and middle-income studentsâ€”contrasts the lip service paid to â€œopportunityâ€ by so many elite colleges and universities with schools that actually walk the walk. Weaving in shocking data and captivating interviews with students and administrators alike, Poison Ivy also synthesizes fascinating insider information on everything from how students are evaluated, unfair tax breaks, and questionable fundraising practices to suburban rituals, testing, tutoring, tuition schemes, and more. This bold, provocative indictment of Americaâ€™s elite colleges shows us whatâ€™s at stake in a faulty systemâ€”and what will be possible if we muster the collective will to transform it.

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