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Most of us think that valedictorians can write their own ticket. By reaching the top of their class they have proven their merit, so their next logical step should be to attend the nation's very best universities. Yet in Top Student, Top School?, Alexandria Walton Radford, of RTI International, reveals that many valedictorians do not enroll in prestigious institutions. Employing an original five-state study that surveyed nine hundred public high school valedictorians, she sets out to determine when and why valedictorians end up at less selective schools, showing that social class makes all the difference. Radford traces valedictorians' paths to college and presents damning evidence that high schools do not provide sufficient guidance on crucial factors affecting college selection, such as reputation, financial aid, and even the application process itself. Left in a bewildering environment of seemingly similar options, many students depend on their parents for assistance-and this allows social class to rear its head and have a profound impact on where students attend. Simply put, parents from less affluent backgrounds are far less informed about differences in colleges' quality, the college application process, and financial aid options, which significantly limits their child's chances of attending a competitive school, even when their child has already managed to become valedictorian. Top Student, Top School? pinpoints an overlooked yet critical juncture in the education process, one that stands as a barrier to class mobility. By focusing solely on valedictorians, it shows that students' paths diverge by social class even when they are similarly well-prepared academically, and this divergence is traceable to specific failures by society, failures that we can and should address. Watch an interview of Alexandria Walton Radford discussing her book here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F81c1D1BpY0

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An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globeThe Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy. Virginia Trimble and David Weintraub vividly describe how, before 1900, a woman who wanted to study the stars had to have a father, brother, or husband to provide entry, and how the considerable intellectual skills of women astronomers were still not enough to enable them to pry open doors of opportunity for much of the twentieth century. After decades of difficult struggles, women are closer to equality in astronomy than ever before. Trimble and Weintraub bring together the stories of the tough and determined women who flung the doors wide open. Taking readers from 1960 to today, this triumphant anthology serves as an inspiration to current and future generations of women scientists while giving voice to the history of a transformative era in astronomy.With contributions by Neta Bahcall, Beatriz Barbuy, Ann Merchant Boesgaard, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Catherine Cesarsky, Poonam Chandra, Xuefei Chen, Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew, Cathie Clarke, Judith Gamora Cohen, France Anne Córdova, Anne Pyne Cowley, Bożena Czerny, Wendy L. Freedman, Gabriela González, Saeko S. Hayashi, Martha Patricia Haynes, Roberta Humphreys, Vicky Kalogera, Gillian Knapp, Shazrene S. Mohamed, Carole Mundell, Priyamvada Natarajan, Dara Norman, Hiranya Peiris, Judith Lynn Pipher, Dina Prialnik, Anneila I. Sargent, Sara Seager, Gražina Tautvaišienė, Silvia Torres-Peimbert, Virginia Trimble, Meg Urry, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Patricia Ann Whitelock, Sidney Wolff, and Rosemary F. G. Wyse.

Women astronomers --- Women in astronomy --- SCIENCE / Astronomy. --- History. --- 61 Cygni. --- Abundance of the chemical elements. --- Aircraft. --- Airglow. --- Alertness. --- Andromeda Galaxy. --- Annie Jump Cannon. --- Astronomer. --- Astronomy. --- Aurora. --- Availability. --- Awareness. --- Be star. --- Brightness. --- By Nature. --- CERN. --- California Institute of Technology. --- Career. --- Centerfold. --- Cygnus X-1. --- Determination. --- Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. --- Dyer Observatory. --- Electromagnetic spectrum. --- Employability. --- Exoplanet. --- Extremely large telescope. --- First Book. --- Free Speech Movement. --- Funding. --- Galaxy filament. --- Galaxy. --- Gamma-ray burst. --- Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph. --- Governance. --- Gratitude. --- Hubble Space Telescope. --- In the News. --- Innovation. --- Instrumentation. --- Joint Astronomy Centre. --- Jupiter. --- Kilauea. --- Kitt Peak National Observatory. --- LAMOST. --- LIGO. --- Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. --- Light curve. --- Magellanic Clouds. --- McCormick Observatory. --- Measurement. --- Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. --- Open cluster. --- Optimism. --- Orbital period. --- Orbital speed. --- Organization. --- Oxygen. --- Payload. --- Personality. --- Phenomenon. --- Photometer. --- Physical property. --- Physicist. --- Prediction. --- Publicity. --- Quantity. --- Quasar. --- Relativistic beaming. --- Result. --- Roof garden. --- Seniority. --- Seriousness. --- Shubha Tole. --- Social order. --- Sokkia. --- Source code. --- Space physics. --- Spectrograph. --- Star chart. --- Star formation. --- Star. --- Stellar atmosphere. --- Stellar structure. --- Steward Observatory. --- Studentship. --- Supercluster. --- Supernova. --- Technology. --- Telescope. --- The Conceptual Framework. --- Thrill Me. --- Total Immersion. --- Trimaran. --- Universe. --- VY Canis Majoris. --- Valedictorian. --- White dwarf. --- Workforce. --- Zonta International. --- Astronomy --- Astronomers --- Women physical scientists