Ebook {Epub PDF} Preparing for Power: Americas Elite Boarding Schools by Peter W. Cookson Jr.

 · Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep–school life and underlife. Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools. Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Caroline Hodges Persell. David Karen.  · Preparing for power: America's elite boarding schools User Review - Not Available - Book Verdict. For this book, the authors visited more than 60 elite prep schools in the United States and England, interviewing ad ministrators, faculty, students, and alumni. Attended by less than one per cent of Read full review.

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Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep# In their book, Preparing For Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools, Peter W. Cookson Jr. and Cardine Hodges Persell wrote the following about the U.S. power elite's private school and elite prep school educational system and indicated how elite prep school graduates have, historically, generally lived in exclusive U.S. neighborhoods; and have, historically, undemocratically monopolized—in disproportionate numbers--the most lucrative and powerful executive positions within the U.S. In their book, Preparing For Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools, Peter W. Cookson Jr. and Cardine Hodges Persell wrote the following about the U.S. power elite's private school and elite prep school educational system and indicated why the U.S. power elite continues to maintain an exclusive, undemocratic, separate, private educational system in the United States.