{"product_id":"grit-and-hope-a-year-with-five-latino-students-and-the-program-that-helped-them-aim-for-college-9780520284456","title":"Grit and Hope A Year with Five Latino Students","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTells the story of five inner-city Hispanic students who start their college applications in the midst of the country's worst recession and of Reality Changers, the program that aims to help them become the first in their families to go college.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The author permits the story to expound itself, showing notable restraint from heavy-handed editorializing or cloying poeticizing. This is a rare achievement: an empirically rigorous history that engages some of the most contentious issues of the day without rancor or agenda. A remarkably sensitive and meticulous investigation of the hurdles to higher education many teens in the U.S. face-and sometimes clear.\" Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor's Note  Cast of Characters   Introduction  1. Across the Water  2. Senior Academy  3. Looking for a Home  4. Inventing Reality Changers  5. Dangerous Enough  6. Uphill  7. Doing RC: How It Works  8. Breaking Faith, Breaking Free  9. A Great Small Organization  10. Undocumented  11. Three-Day  12. Essay Crunch  13. Santiago Milagro and the Four-Year Plan  14. Walking on Water  15. Reset  16. The Guy Inside  17. Rocks on Her Legs  18. Stars and Projects and Everyone Else  19. Going the Distance with Eduardo  20. The Guy Outside  21. Getting In  22. The Costs of Their Dreams  23. Reckonings  24. Scholarship Banquet  25. The Evolution of Reality Changers  26. Epilogue   Notes  Bibliography  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359051678039,"sku":"9780520284456","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/grit-and-hope-a-year-with-five-latino-students-and-the-program-that-helped-them-aim-for-college-9780520284456","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}