The Resource Working class to college : the promise and peril facing blue-collar America, Robert Owen Carr with Dirk Johnson
Working class to college : the promise and peril facing blue-collar America, Robert Owen Carr with Dirk Johnson
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The item Working class to college : the promise and peril facing blue-collar America, Robert Owen Carr with Dirk Johnson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library.
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- Summary
- This book exposes an education class divide that is threatening the American dream of upward social mobility and sowing resentment among those shut out or staggering under crushing debt. The book addresses ways to reduce college costs and shares the inspiring accounts of those who have endured all sorts of hardship "homelessness, an incarcerated parent, dangerously low self-esteem--and fought their way to college and commencement. --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xx, 202 pages
- Contents
-
- The trap of debt and no diploma
- The power of getting a break
- The danger of a dream school
- The conflict between status and common sense
- When the major doesn't fit the bill
- Hasty decisions at the buzzer
- The land of privilege and poverty
- On the fence
- Good grades and cold cash
- Mentors make the difference
- The social costs for first-generation college kids
- drawing strength from hardship
- Dinner party prep school
- Seat and marts
- Finding the path through community college
- Bringing the university to the workplace
- Skilled trades: the other college
- Don't blame the kids
- Making it trough and giving back
- Isbn
- 9780252041105
- Label
- Working class to college : the promise and peril facing blue-collar America
- Title
- Working class to college
- Title remainder
- the promise and peril facing blue-collar America
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert Owen Carr with Dirk Johnson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book exposes an education class divide that is threatening the American dream of upward social mobility and sowing resentment among those shut out or staggering under crushing debt. The book addresses ways to reduce college costs and shares the inspiring accounts of those who have endured all sorts of hardship "homelessness, an incarcerated parent, dangerously low self-esteem--and fought their way to college and commencement. --
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Carr, Robert Owen
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Johnson, Dirk
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Education, Higher
- Working class
- Blue collar workers
- Label
- Working class to college : the promise and peril facing blue-collar America, Robert Owen Carr with Dirk Johnson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The trap of debt and no diploma -- The power of getting a break -- The danger of a dream school -- The conflict between status and common sense -- When the major doesn't fit the bill -- Hasty decisions at the buzzer -- The land of privilege and poverty -- On the fence -- Good grades and cold cash -- Mentors make the difference -- The social costs for first-generation college kids -- drawing strength from hardship -- Dinner party prep school -- Seat and marts -- Finding the path through community college -- Bringing the university to the workplace -- Skilled trades: the other college -- Don't blame the kids -- Making it trough and giving back
- Control code
- ocn962231921
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xx, 202 pages
- Isbn
- 9780252041105
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)962231921
- Label
- Working class to college : the promise and peril facing blue-collar America, Robert Owen Carr with Dirk Johnson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The trap of debt and no diploma -- The power of getting a break -- The danger of a dream school -- The conflict between status and common sense -- When the major doesn't fit the bill -- Hasty decisions at the buzzer -- The land of privilege and poverty -- On the fence -- Good grades and cold cash -- Mentors make the difference -- The social costs for first-generation college kids -- drawing strength from hardship -- Dinner party prep school -- Seat and marts -- Finding the path through community college -- Bringing the university to the workplace -- Skilled trades: the other college -- Don't blame the kids -- Making it trough and giving back
- Control code
- ocn962231921
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xx, 202 pages
- Isbn
- 9780252041105
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)962231921
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