TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holland,Megan M
TI  - Divergent Paths to College: Race, Class, and Inequality in High Schools 
T2  - Critical Issues in American Education
SN  - 9780813590288
AV  - LC213.2 .H635 2019
U1  - 379.2/60973 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - College choice
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Discrimination in education
KW  - Educational equalization
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Admission
KW  - EDUCATION / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. College Dreams and College Outcomes --; 2. Everyone Goes to College --; 3. Racial Context, Tracking, and Peers --; 4. When Brokering Fails: Guidance Holes and Broken Trust --; 5. Opportunities or Opportunistic: Marketing in Higher Education --; 6. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions --; 7. Consequences for the Application Process, College Destinations, and Beyond --; Methodological Appendix --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; References --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access
N2  - In Divergent Paths to College, Megan M. Holland examines how high schools structure different pathways that lead students to very different college destinations based on race and class. She finds that racial and class inequalities are reproduced through unequal access to key sources of information, even among students in the same school and even in schools with well-established college-going cultures. As the college application process becomes increasingly complex and high-stakes, social capital, or relationships with people who can provide information as well as support and guidance, becomes much more critical. Although much has been written about the college-bound experience, we know less about the role that social capital plays, and specifically how high schools can serve as organizational brokers of social ties. The relationships that high schools cultivate between students and higher education institutions by inviting college admissions officers into their schools to market to students, is a particularly critical, yet unexplored source of college information
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813590288
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813590288
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