- Published: 19 September 2019
- ISBN: 9781473538375
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 400
The Inequality Machine
How universities are creating a more unequal world - and what to do about it
- Published: 19 September 2019
- ISBN: 9781473538375
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 400
Indelible and extraordinary, a powerful reckoning with just how far we’ve allowed reality to drift from our ideals. It’s difficult to overstate the importance of higher education to the present moment.
Tara Westover, New York Times Book Review
[An] important new book on the broken promises of higher education . . . heart-rending.
New York Times
In this fascinating study, education journalist Tough argues persuasively that access to an elite college education, which in the US is popularly believed to be a meritocratically distributed social equalizer, is in fact distributed in ways that reinforce existing economic divisions . . . This well-written and persuasive book is likely to make a splash.
Publishers Weekly
[A] readable kiss-and-tell study . . . Tough finds that higher education, which has the potential to increase upward mobility, has become an obstacle that perpetuates social rigidity. The poor remain poor and the rich get richer . . . this study is laced with deep anger
Times Higher Education