Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League Navigating Policy and Practice /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Landers, Kerry H. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Sociology of Education.; Higher Education.; Ethnicity in Education.

This book examines how previously excluded high-achieving, low-income students are faring socially and academically at an Ivy League college in New England. In the past, research conducted on low-income students in elite schools focused mainly on the admissions process. As a result, there is a deart...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. How Low-Income Students Became Invisible at Elite Colleges
• 2. How Alex Got to Dartmouth and Obstacles that Prevent Other Low-Income Students from Attending Elite Schools
• 3. Home Environment to Culture Shock
• 4. Passing
• 5. The Unmoneyed Experience
• 6. Hidden Rules
• 7. Dis-"Orientation"
• 8. True Grit
• 9. Relationships That Matter
• 10. Great Expectations
• 11. Beyond the Ivory Tower
• 12. Low-Income Students Speak Out on Elite Campuses
• 13. Challenging Our Elite Schools to do Better. .