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The book explores the role of higher education in increasing social mobility and reducing social inequality in today’s world. The first part examines the cult

The mass expansion of higher education is one of the most important social transformations of the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, scholars f

The bestselling author of How Children Succeed returns with a devastatingly powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the U.S.

A university education has long been seen as the gateway to upward social mobility for individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and as a way of reprod

Unequal Higher Education identifies and explains the sources of stratification that differentiate colleges and universities in the U.S. Taylor and Cantwell map