When Grit Isn't Enough A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College-for-All Promise【電子書籍】[ Linda F. Nathan ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Examines major myths informing American education and explores how educators can better serve students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don’t disadvantage students on the basis of race or income＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Each year, as the founding headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy (BAA), an urban high school that boasts a 94 percent college acceptance rate, Linda Nathan made a promise to the incoming freshmen: “All of you will graduate from high school and go on to college or a career.” After fourteen years at the helm, Nathan stepped down and took stock of her alumni: of those who went to college, a third dropped out. Feeling like she failed to fulfill her promise, Nathan reflected on ideas she and others have perpetuated about education: that college is for all, that hard work and determination are enough to get you through, that America is a land of equality.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞When Grit Isn’t Enough＜/em＞, Nathan investigates five assumptio．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る