First Chance: How Kids With Nothing Can Change Everything - Couverture rigide

Carr, Robert Owen; Johnson, Dirk

 
9780252042997: First Chance: How Kids With Nothing Can Change Everything
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ISBN 10 : 0252042999 ISBN 13 : 9780252042997
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2019

Synopsis

First Chance: How Kids with Nothing Can Change Everything examines the remarkable triumphs of young people considered least likely to attain a college degree: those who have experienced foster care (three percent graduation rate) or the incarceration of a parent, especially a mother (two percent graduation rate). Some 2.7 million schoolchildren have experienced parental incarceration, while nearly 500,000 are declared wards of the state annually. Yet their experiences receive little attention. The young people themselves are frequently hesitant to talk about their lives, burdened with a sense of shame, even though they are blameless.

Philanthropist and author Robert O. Carr has turned the focus of his college scholarship program, Give Something Back, on these often forgotten and neglected kids. As their stories reveal, they have the smarts and drive to compete with peers from more comfortable backgrounds. The author argues that these young people can draw on their special and painful insights to forge powerful change, provided society acknowledges them--and extends a first chance.

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À propos de l?auteur

Robert Owen Carr is the founder and CEO of Beyond and the founder of Give Something Back, a college scholarship and mentoring program. He is the author of Through the Fires: An American Story of Turbulence, Business Triumph and Giving Back and Working Class to College: The Promise and Peril Facing Blue-Collar America. Dirk Johnson is a former bureau chief for the New York Times and Newsweek magazine. His books include Biting the Dust: The Wild Ride and Dark Romance of the Rodeo Cowboy and The American West and Meth: America's Home-Cooked Menace.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252042999
ISBN 13 
9780252042997
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
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