Working class to college : the promise and peril facing blue-collar America / Robert Owen Carr with Dirk Johnson.
Carr, Robert Owen, author.; Johnson, Dirk, author.
LC5051 .C37 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Working class to college : the promise and peril facing blue-collar America / Robert Owen Carr with Dirk Johnson.
Author Carr, Robert Owen, author.
ISBN 9780252041105 (hardcover)
0252041100 (hardcover)
Distributor Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press in association with GSBF Media [2017]
Copyright ©2017.
Language English
Description xx, 202 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number LC5051 .C37 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 370.1934
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.
Added Author Johnson, Dirk, author.
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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.

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