The B.A. Breakthrough: How Ending Diploma Disparities Can Change the Face of America - Couverture souple

Richard Whitmire

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ISBN 10 : 0578438518 ISBN 13 : 9780578438511

Editeur : The 74 Media, 2019

Synopsis

The poorest students in the country — many of them young people of color and most of them the first in their families to attend college — have an astonishingly low chance of graduating from college within six years. Eleven percent, at most, make it. That’s not the American Dream. But what if that could change? In his new book, The B.A. Breakthrough, How ending diploma disparities can change the face of America, Richard Whitmire argues that it would be the advent of “the most effective anti-poverty program ever launched in this country.” With college grads earning an estimated $1 million more over the course of their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma, it’s easy to see why. What Whitmire does in The B.A. Breakthrough is to take readers on a journey to the places across the country where the breakthrough is already happening — from innovative K-12 schools, many of them public charters, where smart data-driven college counseling is now the standard; to elite colleges, like UCLA, where once-disparaged community college transfers are accepted by the thousands; to creative nonprofits, like the College Advising Corps, which is opening the eyes of high schools everywhere to the hard reality of how their grads actually do once they reach college. Whitmire shows how all three players have figured out ways to dramatically improve college graduation for the most disadvantaged students and how those transformations are beginning to spread. What if they started working together? He senses that a tipping point is coming — one that could finally reverse income inequality in America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The 74 Media
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0578438518
• ISBN 13: 9780578438511
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible