Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Educational Opportunity Through the Lens of American Culture
I. EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY IN PRACTICE
2. Winning the Battle and Losing the War: A Look at One Russell High Classroom
3. Low Cultural and Social Capital, Continued
4. One Student's World at Russell High: A (School) Day in the Life of Rafael Jackson
II. THE RESILIENCE OF THE STATUS QUO
5. Reform that Reproduced: The 1992 Committee
6. Respectability Lost: An Historical Perspective on Russell High School
III. PROMOTING FAITH IN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
7. Affirming the Myth of Educational Opportunity
8. Eastown: A City Divided
IV. CONCLUSIONS
9. So What?
Appendix: Methodological Reflections
Notes
References
Index