Social Class and Stratification

L.A. Parents Pony Up For Kids’ V.I.P. Lounge Access at Sixth-Grade Dance

25 May 2012

Most middle-school kids have better things to think about than whether or not they’re members of the 1%. But one Los Angeles charter school upped the ante on the usual social anxieties of its annual dance when it installed a “V.I.P. lounge� — with a separate cover charge. On top of the $15 dance admission, [...]

College: 'The Best Rehearsal Spaces We Have for Democracy'

22 May 2012

Watch Video | Listen to the Audio GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight, as students line up to receive diplomas and head out in search of work in a tough economy, we turn to one author's assessment of the value of a college education. Jeffrey Brown recorded this book conversation earlier this month. JEFFREY BROWN: On the one hand, an article of faith, a college education is a goal to be sought for all ...

Abolish private schools? Not enough of us want it badly enough | Ian Jack

19 May 2012

For all that private schools uphold the privileges of money and class, to dismantle them would need the strength of will that dissolved the monasteries To an extreme not reached anywhere else in the world, British railway locomotives carried names as well as numbers. Why this was so would make an interesting study – perhaps it came out of a kind of anthropomorphism that wanted machines to have ...