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. 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. Evan Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive “Ivy-plus” schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. 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. The front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg.
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