| Expanding Opportunity in Higher Education: Leveraging Promise Contributor(s): Gándara, Patricia (Editor), Orfield, Gary (Editor), Horn, Catherine L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 079146864X ISBN-13: 9780791468647 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: The dream of public higher education in America is to provide opportunity for many and to offer transformative help to American communities and the economy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Higher - Education | Administration - General - Education | Decision Making & Problem Solving |
| Dewey: 379.26 |
| LCCN: 2005030809 |
| Series: Frontiers in Education |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.06" W x 9.08" (1.02 lbs) 314 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The dream of public higher education in America is to provide opportunity for many and to offer transformative help to American communities and the economy. Expanding Opportunity in Higher Education explores the massive challenges facing California and the nation in realizing this goal during a time of enormous demographic change. The immediate focus on California is particularly appropriate given the size of the state--it educates one out of every nine students in the country--and its checkered political record with respect to civil rights and educational inequities. The book includes essays not only by academics looking at the state's educational system as a whole, but also by those within the policy system who are trying to keep it going in difficult times. The contributors show that the destiny of California, and the nation, rests on the courage of policymakers, both within the universities and within the government, to move aggressively to reclaim the hope of millions of students who can make enormous contributions to this society if only given the chance. |