Adam Howard is an associate professor of education at Colby College. He is author of Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling.Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is author of The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Introduction: Why Study Up?Chapter 3 Preparing for Power: Twenty-Five Years LaterChapter 4 Educating for Hegemony, Researching for Change: Collaborating with Teachers and Students to Examine Bullying at an Elite Private SchoolChapter 5 A Part and Apart: Students of Color Negotiating Boundaries at an Elite Boarding SchoolChapter 6 Stepping Outside Class: Affluent Students Resisting PrivilegeChapter 7 Getting In: How Elite Schools Play the College GameChapter 8 The Effects of Parents' College Tier on Offspring's Educational AttainmentsChapter 9 Class Dismissed?: The Social Class Worldviews of Privileged College StudentsChapter 10 Pageantry, Pedagogy, and Pandorea: Literacies of the Southern BelleChapter 11 On Not Seeming Like You Want Anything: Privileged Girls' Dilemmas of Ambition and SelflessnessChapter 12 Outlining a Research Agenda on Elite Education

A great collection. Elite schooling is important not only because it defines the ladders others must climb to move up in the world, but also because it represents powerful families' best guess about the future their children will inherit. Educating Elites quickly will become required reading for any serious student of inequality in America.

Adam Howard is an associate professor of education at Colby College. He is author of Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling.Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is author of The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Introduction: Why Study Up?Chapter 3 Preparing for Power: Twenty-Five Years LaterChapter 4 Educating for Hegemony, Researching for Change: Collaborating with Teachers and Students to Examine Bullying at an Elite Private SchoolChapter 5 A Part and Apart: Students of Color Negotiating Boundaries at an Elite Boarding SchoolChapter 6 Stepping Outside Class: Affluent Students Resisting PrivilegeChapter 7 Getting In: How Elite Schools Play the College GameChapter 8 The Effects of Parents' College Tier on Offspring's Educational AttainmentsChapter 9 Class Dismissed?: The Social Class Worldviews of Privileged College StudentsChapter 10 Pageantry, Pedagogy, and Pandorea: Literacies of the Southern BelleChapter 11 On Not Seeming Like You Want Anything: Privileged Girls' Dilemmas of Ambition and SelflessnessChapter 12 Outlining a Research Agenda on Elite Education

A great collection. Elite schooling is important not only because it defines the ladders others must climb to move up in the world, but also because it represents powerful families' best guess about the future their children will inherit. Educating Elites quickly will become required reading for any serious student of inequality in America.

Adam Howard is an associate professor of education at Colby College. He is author of Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling.Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is author of The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Introduction: Why Study Up?Chapter 3 Preparing for Power: Twenty-Five Years LaterChapter 4 Educating for Hegemony, Researching for Change: Collaborating with Teachers and Students to Examine Bullying at an Elite Private SchoolChapter 5 A Part and Apart: Students of Color Negotiating Boundaries at an Elite Boarding SchoolChapter 6 Stepping Outside Class: Affluent Students Resisting PrivilegeChapter 7 Getting In: How Elite Schools Play the College GameChapter 8 The Effects of Parents' College Tier on Offspring's Educational AttainmentsChapter 9 Class Dismissed?: The Social Class Worldviews of Privileged College StudentsChapter 10 Pageantry, Pedagogy, and Pandorea: Literacies of the Southern BelleChapter 11 On Not Seeming Like You Want Anything: Privileged Girls' Dilemmas of Ambition and SelflessnessChapter 12 Outlining a Research Agenda on Elite Education

A great collection. Elite schooling is important not only because it defines the ladders others must climb to move up in the world, but also because it represents powerful families' best guess about the future their children will inherit. Educating Elites quickly will become required reading for any serious student of inequality in America.