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A Good Investment?: Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title A Good Investment?: Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Amy Brown
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:296
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9780816691142
ClassificationsDewey:306.43097471
Audience
General
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 2

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 15 November 2015
Publication Country United States

Description

Select students and teachers worked the room at a fundraising event for a New York City public high school Amy Brown calls College Preparatory Academy. It was their job to convince wealthy attendants that College Prep, with its largely minority and disadvantaged student body and its unusually high rate of graduation and college acceptance, was a wo

Author Biography

Amy Brown is an educational anthropologist and a faculty member in the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Reviews

"The book, which should interest readers in a wide variety of disciplines, is a good contribution to this ongoing, important debate related to urban public education today." -CHOICE