Producing Success

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Producing Success

Part One. Community, Home, and School Settings

1 The Wilton Way: Middle-Class Culture and Practice

2 Parental Support, Interventions, and Manipulations of Policy

3 The Role of the School: Institutional Advantaging

Part Two. Student Identity and Practice

4 Identities for Control and Success: The Acquisition of Psychological Capital

5 Teaching the “Point-Hungry” Student: Hypercredentialing in Practice

Part Three. Costs of Personal Advancement

6 “Generation Stress” and School Success

7 Alienation, Marginalization, and Incivility

8 Conclusions

Appendix: WBHS 2002 Student Survey

Notes

References