Beating the Odds
How Poor Kids Get to College
Published on 23. October 1995
Book
Hardback
230 pages
978-0-7879-0132-5 (ISBN)
Description
Using poignant stories of teenagers and adults of severely disadvantaged backgrounds, this is an exploration of how some people manage to overcome the most desperate of circumstances and achieve the seemingly unreachable goal of a college degree. Levine culls out the factors that made the difference and provides potent advice to colleges, universities, communities and families for smoothing the pathway to college for disadvantaged youth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 5 mm
Width: 5 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-0132-5 (9780787901325)
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Content
Prologue: Why the Odds Don't Change for the Poor Part One: Weighing the Odds 1. The Odds Against Escaping from Poverty 2. The Odds Against Going to College Part Two: Beating the Odds 3. A Portrait of Twenty-Four Who Succeeded 4. Hitting the Jackpot: Entree to the Elites 5. Betting the Farm: The Struggle Just to Get in the Door Part Three: Improving the Odds 6. Nine Mentors Who Changed the Odds 7. The Lesson: One Arm Around One Child 8. Evening the Odds: Making College Possible for the Poor Resource: Brief Biographies of the Twenty-Four Students Inverviewed.