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The Best of the Best
Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School
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Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
About this book
For two years, the author shared the life of the “Weston School,” an elite New England boarding school. Vividly describing the pastoral landscape and graceful buildings, the variety of classes and activities, and the official and unofficial rules that define the school, this book reveals a small world of ambitious, intensely pressured students.
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In a book that's both generous and skeptical, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández penetrates the inner world of a top prep school, and shows how the students first construct, and then rationalize, their elite identities. Filled with irony and insight, The Best of the Best reveals both the opportunities and the casualties of privilege.
-- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, author of The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
-- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, author of The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
January 30, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9780674053878
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
312
eBook ISBN:
9780674053878
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Professional and scholarly;
