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

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

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

"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