[PDF] Poison In The Ivy eBook

Author : W. Carson Byrd
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 081358938X

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The world of elite campuses is one of rarified social circles, as well as prestigious educational opportunities. W. Carson Byrd studied twenty-eight of the most selective colleges and universities in the United States to see whether elite students’ social interactions with each other might influence their racial beliefs in a positive way, since many of these graduates will eventually hold leadership positions in society. He found that students at these universities believed in the success of the ‘best and the brightest,’ leading them to situate differences in race and status around issues of merit and individual effort. Poison in the Ivy challenges popular beliefs about the importance of cross-racial interactions as an antidote to racism in the increasingly diverse United States. He shows that it is the context and framing of such interactions on college campuses that plays an important role in shaping students’ beliefs about race and inequality in everyday life for the future political and professional leaders of the nation. Poison in the Ivy is an eye-opening look at race on elite college campuses, and offers lessons for anyone involved in modern American higher education.

Author : Amy Goldman Koss
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1626723826

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"IwithVY: I told Ms. Gold about how The Evil Three have been after me, feeding off me since fourth grade. MARCO: It isn't a very pretty story, so if you're looking for 'nice,' you better ask someone else. ANN: We just have to come up wiht some witnesses for our side. Think! Does anyone owe you any favors? BRYCE: I figure, Dude, why not make a little spare change on the side? A buck a bet. All's I has to do was explain that liable was civil for guilty, and they swarmed like flies." Eight first-person narrators give different versions of the same event. Lessons about the inner workings of the judicial system pale beside the insights into human nature. With pathos and a great deal of humor, Amy Goldman Koss keeps you turning pages.

Author : Evan Mandery
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 1620977222

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The front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. Evan Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive “Ivy-plus” schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. And as a college degree continues to be the surest route to upward mobility, the inequality bred in our broken higher education system is now a principal driver of skyrocketing income inequality everywhere. Mandery—a professor at a public college that serves low- and middle-income students—contrasts the lip service paid to “opportunity” by so many elite colleges and universities with schools that actually walk the walk. Weaving in shocking data and captivating interviews with students and administrators alike, Poison Ivy also synthesizes fascinating insider information on everything from how students are evaluated, unfair tax breaks, and questionable fundraising practices to suburban rituals, testing, tutoring, tuition schemes, and more. This bold, provocative indictment of America’s elite colleges shows us what’s at stake in a faulty system—and what will be possible if we muster the collective will to transform it.

Author : Benjamin Hart
Publisher : New York : Stein and Day
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780812829907

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The author recounts his years as a Dartmouth student, argues that the school has an anti-religious, liberal bias, and describes the brief history of the conservative Dartmouth Review

Author : Thomas E. Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Poison ivy
ISBN :

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Discusses five basic plants that are poisonous and cause rashes and examines the myths about these plants as well as "cures" and home remedies for the rashes that work, appear to work, or don't work at all.

Author : Kody Keplinger
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1779508603

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New York Times bestselling author of The DUFF Kody Keplinger and artist Sara Kipin reimagine an iconic DC antihero with a gothic-horror twist. Pamela Isley doesn’t trust other people, especially men. They always want something from her that she’s not willing to give. When cute goth girl Alice Oh comes into Pamela’s life after an accident at the local park, she makes Pamela feel like pulling back the curtains and letting the sunshine in. But there are dark secrets deep within the Isley home. Secrets Pamela’s father has warned must remain hidden. Secrets that could turn deadly and destroy the one person who ever cared about Pamela, or as her mom preferred to call her...Ivy. Will Pamela open herself up to the possibilities of love, or will she forever be transformed by the thorny vines of revenge?

Author : Anita Sanchez
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781630761318

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For centuries, poison ivy has bedeviled, inconvenienced, and downright tortured the human race. In Praise of Poison Ivy explores the question of why this plant is apparently on a mission to give us humans grief, from itchy ankles to life-threatening medical emergencies. This book also examines why poison ivy targets humans, but no other species, an

Author : William Deresiewicz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 1476702713

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Deresiewicz takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with demands for perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications received by college admissions committees. Students are losing the ability to think independently. College is supposed to be a time for self-discovery-- but the system is broken, and he offers solutions on how to fix it.

Author : Lilian Moore
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN :

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Short poems about ghosts, bats, monsters, witches, and Halloween.

Author : Eleanor Kerlow
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780312113674

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A revealing and dispassionate look at the recent history of Harvard Law School recounts the ideological and political battles currently being waged over changes that have been made in the school's traditional style and focus.