Tearing Down the Gates?
Against The Current vol. 143

http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/2437
Date Written:  2009-11-01
Publisher:  Against The Current
Year Published:  2009
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX13580

Peter Sacks describes Tearing Down the Gates as a work about the staggering injustices in the American educational system. Sacks utilizes a seldom-employed tool to analyze the educational system in the United States: the role of class. Importantly, Sacks understands class in a multi-faceted way, discussing not only the money a family has but its income-producing capital and its educational background and what he describes as its “cultural capital.”