Guest Editor: Felice Yeskel, Executive Director, Class Action
Special Issue Rate: US$25/£16*
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This special issue on Class and Education appears at a time of growing attention to the widening economic inequality between the rich and the rest of us. The wealthiest 1% of U.S. families currently have more wealth than the bottom 90% put together. This is increasingly apparent in discussions of the ways in which income and wealth disparities affect and undermine all resource-driven issues in our society. These disparities impact education, heath care, housing, credit, justice, and even the length of life itself.
One dramatic instance—the core subject of this special theme issue—is the role of education in maintaining and reproducing these disparities in social economic class, income, and wealth. This might seem ironic, given the centrality of public schooling and public higher education to attaining the American Dream. In order to analyze and understand the role of class in our schools and in our society and the impact of our schools on class, we need to consider how difficult it is to talk openly about class, why it is so difficult, and what we mean by class.
