Towards a brighter tomorrow : college barriers, hopes and plans of Black, Latino/a and Asian American students in California /

Towards a Brighter Tomorrow: College Barriers, Hopes and Plans of Black Latino a and Asian American Students in California aims to develop a clearer understanding of the influence of social dynamics on the educational opportunities of high school students of color in the urban setting of California&...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Allen, Walter Recharde, Kimura-Walsh, Erin, Griffin, Kimberly A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlotte, NC : IAP, Informaiton Age Pub., ©2009.
Colección:Research on African American education.
Temas:
College preparation programs > United States.
Minorities > Education (Secondary) > United States.
Youth with social disabilities > Education > United States.
Discrimination in education > United States.
Programmes d'études préuniversitaires > États-Unis.
Minorités > Enseignement secondaire > États-Unis.
Discrimination en éducation > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Secondary.
College preparation programs
Discrimination in education
Minorities > Education (Secondary)
Youth with social disabilities > Education
Chancengleichheit
College
Rassendiskriminierung
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • 1. Introduction: understanding college access and opportunity for Black and Latina/o students in California
  • 2. The CHOICES project: methodology / Walter R. Allen, Ophella C. Dano and Eden Brauer
  • pt. I. School resources
  • 3. Working with what you have: college preparation at a low resourced high school / Kimberly A. Griffin and Mindelyn Buford II
  • 4. More than what money can buy: students' experiences with race and resource allocation at a well resourced high school / Kimberly A. Griffin and Erin Kimura-Walsh
  • 5. Helping students help themselves?: the paradox of high expectations and low resources at an urban magnet high school / Gloria González
  • pt. II. Racial dynamics
  • 6. Structuring opportunity: tracking students at a "single-track" high school / Michael Knox
  • 7. Systems of support: home and school contexts of Asian and Latina/o high school students / Joshua S. Yang
  • 8. "You're the scholar
  • Please, let me be one, too": how race shapes access to institutional resources at a predominantly Black and Latina/o school / Faustina M. DuCros
  • pt. III. Intersection of race and class
  • 9. Southeast Asian educational mobility: ethnicity, social capital and the pursuit of higher education / Robert T. Teranishi and Tu-Lien Kim Nguyen
  • 10. Bridges or barriers?: the influence of family background, finances, peers, high school and outreach programs on Latina/o students' prepatory process / Erin Kimura-Walsh
  • 11. From suburban to urban: the influence of busing policy on the educational context and student outcomes of a suburban high school / Kimberly A. White-Smith
  • 12. When cultures clash: transposing a college-going culture in an urban school / Bryan A. Brown, Cheryl A. Brown and Uma M. Jayakumar
  • pt. IV. Promising practices
  • 13. AVID: providing a different atmosphere to promote college access / Ray Franke [and others]
  • 14. Maintaining culture and community: the quest for academic success at Superior High School / Tyrone C. Howard and Raina Dyer-Barr
  • 15. Conclusion and implications
  • Afterword / Gary Orfield.

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