Opportunity and hope [electronic resource] : transforming children's lives through scholarships / Naomi Schaefer Riley.
2014
LC243.C47 .R55 2014eb
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Opportunity and hope [electronic resource] : transforming children's lives through scholarships / Naomi Schaefer Riley.
ISBN
9781442226104 electronic book
9781442226098
9781442226098
Published
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 137 pages)
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LC243.C47 .R55 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.2/23
Summary
The U.S. education system is not meeting the needs of all our children, especially those who are economically disadvantaged. For too many families, income level and ZIP code determine the quality of education available to their children. The need to give all children access to a good education, a chance for a better future, has never been greater. Launched in 1998 by philanthropists Ted Forstmann and John Walton, the Children's Scholarship Fund has offered thousands of low-income children across the country the chance to attend private school, children who would have otherwise never experienced the benefits of a private education. In Opportunity and Hope, prominent journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley chronicles the lives of 10 scholarship alumni who - because of the educational opportunities afforded them - were able to turn less than perfect childhood circumstances into successful lives and careers. The stories of these children, representative of thousands of others and their families, are nothing less than inspirational. They are proof that all any of America's children need to achieve their dreams is a chance, and someone to believe in them. They are also a testament to the power of private schools, including many inner-city faith-based schools, and they are evidence that given the chance for the right kind of education, anyone can achieve the American dream.
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Table of Contents
"No one ever told me I was dreaming too big"
A family finds refuge
Called to dance
What would you do if you couldn't fail?
A place of peace amidst a world of violence
"Little house on the prairie"
Sizing up the competition, and then winning it
The burdens of adulthood, placed on a child
Food for the spirit and the mind
Breaking the cycle of stuckness.
A family finds refuge
Called to dance
What would you do if you couldn't fail?
A place of peace amidst a world of violence
"Little house on the prairie"
Sizing up the competition, and then winning it
The burdens of adulthood, placed on a child
Food for the spirit and the mind
Breaking the cycle of stuckness.