Grit and hope : a year with five Latino students and the program that helped them aim for college /

"Grit and Hope tells the story of five inner-city Hispanic students who start their college applications in the midst of the country's worst recession and of Reality Changers, the program that aims to help them become the first in their families to go college. This year they must keep up t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davenport, Barbara, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Temas:
Reality Changers (Program)
Hispanic American high school students > California > San Diego > Case studies.
College applications > California > San Diego > Case studies.
Élèves du secondaire américains d'origine latino-américaine > Californie > San Diego > Études de cas.
Universités > Demandes d'admission > Californie > San Diego > Études de cas.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Urban.
College applications
Hispanic American high school students
California > San Diego
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Across the water
  • Senior academy
  • Looking for a home
  • Inventing Reality Changers
  • Dangerous enough
  • Uphill
  • Doing RC : how it works
  • Breaking faith, breaking free
  • A great small organization
  • Undocumented
  • Three-day
  • Essay crunch
  • Santiago Milagro and the four-year plan
  • Walking on water
  • Reset
  • The guy inside
  • Rocks on her legs
  • Stars and projects and everyone else
  • Going the distance with Eduardo
  • The guy outside
  • Getting in
  • The costs of their dreams
  • Reckonings
  • Scholarship banquet
  • The evolution of Reality Changers.

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