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Grit and hopea year with five Latino...

Davenport, Barbara, (1945-)

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

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Grit and hopeBarbara Davenport.
其他題名:	a year with five Latino students and the program that helped them aim for college /
作者:	Davenport, Barbara,
出版者:	Oakland, Ca. :University of California Press,c2016.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (240 p.)
標題:	Hispanic American high school studentsCase studies.California
電子資源:	https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520960077
ISBN:	9780520960077$q(electronic bk.)

Grit and hopea year with five Latino students and the program that helped them aim for college /
Davenport, Barbara,1945-

Grit and hopea year with five Latino students and the program that helped them aim for college /[electronic resource] :Barbara Davenport. - 1st ed. - Oakland, Ca. :University of California Press,c2016. - 1 online resource (240 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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 their grades in AP courses, write compelling essays for their applications, and find scholarships to fund their dreams. One lives in a garage and struggles to get enough to eat. Two are academic standouts, but are undocumented, ineligible for state and federal financial assistance. One tries to keep his balance as his mother gets a life-threatening diagnosis; another bonds with her sister when their parents are sidelined by substance abuse. The book also follows Christopher Yanov, the program's youthful, charismatic founder in a year that's as critical for Reality Changers' future as it is for the seniors. Yanov wants to grow Reality Changers into national visibility. He's doubled the program's size, and hired new employees, but he hasn't anticipated that growing means he'll have to surrender some control, and trust his new staff. It's the story of a highly successful, yet flawed organization that must change in order to grow. Told with deep affection and without sentimentality, the students stories show that although poverty and cultural deprivation seriously complicate youths' efforts to launch into young adulthood, the support of a strong program makes a critical difference"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9780520960077$q(electronic bk.)

LCCN: 2016007272Subjects--Corporate Names:

902165
Reality Changers (Program)
Subjects--Topical Terms:

902166
Hispanic American high school students
--California--Case studies.

LC Class. No.: LC2688.S25

Dewey Class. No.: 371.829/680794985

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