Class Dismissed by Anthony Abraham Jack HARDBACK 9780691237466

Class DismissedWhen Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price\nAuthor(s): Anthony Abraham Jack\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691237466, 978-0691237466\nSynopsis\nA revealing account of the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excel\n\nWhen the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial unrest gripped the world, elite colleges scrambled to figure out what to do with the diversity they so fervently recruitedand disadvantaged students suffered. Class Dismissed exposes how woefully unprepared colleges were to support these students, who share their stories of how they were left to weather the storm alone and unprotected.\n\nDrawing on the firsthand experiences of students from all walks of life at elite colleges, Anthony Abraham Jack reveals the hidden and unequal worlds students navigated before and during the pandemic closures.