Earning One’s Way
I start teaching my Education and the American Dream tonight, and we’ll be working for the next weeks on complicating the idea that through education, we earn our way up the ladder by virtue of talent...
View ArticleThe Social Isolation of the Privileged
This article offering advice for living frugally while in grad school was making the academic rounds last week. And the comments on the article, on the Chronicle’s Facebook page, and across Twitter...
View ArticlePrivilege and Power, the High School Edition
I read Seamus Kahn’s excellent book Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite and St. Paul’s School a few years ago, and have quoted it often in classes and conversations. Kahn attended the elite...
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