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The Winner-Take-All High School: Organizational Adaptations to Educational tratification.
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Attewell, Paul – Sociology of Education, 2001
Explores how the focus on class rank has affected students from star public high schools, creating a disadvantage when students try to enter elite colleges. Explains a new approach, "winner-take-all," being utilized in high schools in which schools focus on the top students. Includes references. (CMK)
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