[PDF] The Fractured College Prep Pipeline: Hoarding Opportunities to Learn by Heather E. Price
The Fractured College Prep Pipeline: Hoarding Opportunities to Learn. Heather E. Price
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ISBN: 9780807765029 | 192 pages | 5 Mb
- The Fractured College Prep Pipeline: Hoarding Opportunities to Learn
- Heather E. Price
- Page: 192
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780807765029
- Publisher: Teachers College Press
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Overview
This book walks readers through the stages of the high school college prep pipeline that introduces interlocked structural barriers to students. The author shows how these barriers reinforce segregated structures that unfairly distribute the public good of education to some students and not others. Price argues that the college prep pipeline of Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate coursework in American high schools constitutes a new form of tracking in the 21st century. Even further, this new tracking introduces a façade of “college readiness” that veils the unequal learning opportunities that send some students out into the college world with pockets full of counterfeit credentials that serve only to reinforce the historically oppressive system. Whether intentional or not, this new form of tracking is embedded in schools across the United States and have lifetime consequences for individual students that reinforce historically racial, ethnic, and spatial inequalities. “This book is a rigorous and engaging portrait of the architecture of opportunity in American schools. With a fine-grained analysis that never loses sight of the big picture, Heather Price reveals structural realities of college readiness in the United States that are ripe for change.” —Sean Kelly, University of Pittsburgh