The Cost of Elite Educations

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 1, 2022

Evan Mandery, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the author of Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us (The New Press, 2022), argues that public schools and public colleges are the engines of social mobility, while elite colleges make the economic divide wider across generations.

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