Towards a brighter tomorrow : the college barriers, hopes and plans of Black, Latino/a and Asian American students in California

• Other Authors: Allen, Walter Recharde (Editor), Kimura-Walsh, Erin (Editor), Griffin, Kimberly A (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Informaiton Age Publishing, [2009]
• Series: Research on African American education.
• Subjects: College preparation programs > United States.; Minorities > Education (Secondary) > United States.; Youth with social disabilities > Education > United States.; Discrimination in education > United States.; Education > Special Education > Behavioral, Emotional & Social Disabilities.; Disability: social aspects.; Teaching of students with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.; Relating to people with visible or hidden disabilities, impairments or conditions.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806618231
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-60752-275-1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (386 pages)

The book aims to develop a clearer understanding of the influence of social dynamics on the educational opportunities of high school students of color in the urban setting of California's Los Angeles area. Specifically, we examine how students' backgrounds, high school experiences and own...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Introduction: Understanding College Access and Opportunity for Black and Latina/o Students in California
• Chapter 1. The choices project: Methodology / Walter R. Allen, Ophella C. Dano, and Eden Brauer
• Part I. School resources
• Chapter 2. Working with what you have: College preparation at a low resourced high school / Kimberly A. Griffin and Mindelyn Buford
• Chapter 3. More than what money can buy: Students' experiences with race and resource allocation at a well resourced high school / Kimberly A. Griffin and Erin Kimura-Walsh
• Chapter 4. Helping students help themselves?: The paradox of high expectations and low resources at an urban magnet high school / Gloria González
• Part II. Racial dynamics
• Chapter 5. Structuring opportunity: Tracking students at a single-track high school / Michael Knox
• Chapter 6. Systems of support: Home and school contexts of asian and Latina/o high school students / Joshua S. Yang
• Chapter 7. "you're the scholar--please, let me be one, too": How race shapes access to institutional resources at a predominantly black and Latina/o school;faustina m. Ducros
• Part III. Intersection of race and class
• Chapter 8. Southeast asian educational mobility: Ethnicity, social capital, and the pursuit of higher education / Robert T. Teranishi and Tu-Lien Kim Nguyen
• Chapter 9. Bridges or barriers?: The influence of family background, finances, peers, high school and outreach programs on Latina/o students' college preparatory process / Erin Kimura-Walsh
• Chapter 10. From suburban to urban: The influence of busing policy on the educational context and student outcomes of a suburban high school / Kimberly A. White-Smith
• Chapter 11. When cultures clash: Transposing a college-going culture in an urban school / Bryan A. Brown, Cheryl A. Brown, and Uma M. Jayakumar
• Part IV. Promising practices
• Chapter 12. Avid: Providing a different atmosphere to promote college access / Ray Franke, Jaime Rodriguez, Rican Vue, and Maria Woodruff
• Chapter 13. Maintaining culture and community: The quest for academic success at superior high school / Tyrone C. Howard and Raina Dyer-Barr
• Chapter 14. Conclusions and implications. Afterword / Gary Orfield.