Paul Tough. (2019). The Inequality Machine: How College Divides Us. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Paul Tough. 2019. The Inequality Machine: How College Divides Us. HarperAudio.

Paul Tough, The Inequality Machine: How College Divides Us. HarperAudio, 2019.

Paul Tough. The Inequality Machine: How College Divides Us. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2019.

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     PAUL TOUGH is the author of Helping Children Succeed and How Children Succeed, which spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists and was translated into twenty-eight languages. He is also the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to the public radio program This American Life. You can learn more about his work at paultough.com and follow him on Twitter: @paultough.

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First published as The Years That Matter Most
From best-selling author Paul Tough, an indelible and explosive book on the glaring injustices of higher education, including unfair admissions tests, entrenched racial barriers, and crushing student debt. Now updated and expanded for the pandemic era.
When higher education works the way it's supposed to, there is no better tool for social mobility—for lifting young people out of challenging circumstances and into the middle class and beyond. In reality, though, American colleges and universities have become the ultimate tool of social immobility—a system that secures a comfortable future for the children of the wealthy while throwing roadblocks in the way of students from struggling families.

Combining vivid and powerful personal stories with deep, authoritative reporting, Paul Tough explains how we got into this mess and explores the innovative reforms that might get us out. Tough examines the systemic racism that pervades American higher education, shows exactly how the SATs give an unfair advantage to wealthy students, and guides readers from Ivy League seminar rooms to the welding shop at a rural community college. At every stop, he introduces us to young Americans yearning for a better life—and praying that a college education might help them get there.

With a new preface and afterword by the author exposing how the coronavirus pandemic has shaken the higher education system anew.​

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   • content: Author/narrator Paul Tough explores the many barriers and processes in place that hinder success in getting into and completing college. Tough's narration comes across like that of a gritty gumshoe detective, in part because of his deep, gravelly voice. Yet his tone also conveys suspicion, especially as his research illuminates the ways that the affluent game the system, such as the Varsity Blues scandal of 2019. Tough contrasts that level of privilege to the egregious complications and limitations of resources most other students run into while aspiring to a first-class education. In another audiobook, Tough's delivery might detract, but in this production it draws out the pitfalls of the specific individuals he has researched and suggests the gloomy outlook for upward mobility in the U.S. today. L.E. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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First published as The Years That Matter Most
From best-selling author Paul Tough, an indelible and explosive book on the glaring injustices of higher education, including unfair admissions tests, entrenched racial barriers, and crushing student debt. Now updated and expanded for the pandemic era.
When higher education works the way it's supposed to, there is no better tool for social mobility—for lifting young people out of challenging circumstances and into the middle class and beyond. In reality, though, American colleges and universities have become the ultimate tool of social immobility—a system that secures a comfortable future for the children of the wealthy while throwing roadblocks in the way of students from struggling families.

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