{"product_id":"poison-ivy-by-evan-mandery-9781620976951","title":"Poison Ivy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn eye-opening look at how America's elite colleges and suburbs help keep the rich rich, making it harder than ever to fight the inequality that divides us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHailed as a \u003cem\u003estaggering portrait of inequality in America\u003c\/em\u003e (Philip Dray), \u003cem\u003ePoison Ivy\u003c\/em\u003e tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. In a \u003cem\u003elively and trenchant\u003c\/em\u003e (Washington Monthly) account, Evan Mandery—a Harvard graduate and current professor at a public college that serves low- and middle-income students—reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive \"Ivy-plus\" schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. 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. Mandery contrasts the lip service paid to \"opportunity\" by many elite colleges and universities with schools that actually walk the walk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow in an accessible paperback format, \u003cem\u003ePoison Ivy\u003c\/em\u003e is a \u003cem\u003eno-holds-barred takedown\u003c\/em\u003e (Forbes) that synthesises 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 exactly what's at stake—and what will be possible if we muster the collective will to transform it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461272289516,"sku":"9781620976951","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781620976951-poison-ivy.jpg?v=1774963944","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/poison-ivy-by-evan-mandery-9781620976951","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}