Beating the Odds: How the Poor Get to College

Arthur E. Levine · Jana Nidiffer

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Higher Education Research Studies Social and Cultural Dynamics Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

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Prologue: Why the Odds Don't Change for the Poor Part One: Weighing the Odds 1. The Odds Against Escaping from Poverty 2. The Odds Against Going to College Part Two: Beating the Odds 3. A Portrait of Twenty-Four Who Succeeded 4. Hitting the Jackpot: Entree to the Elites 5. Betting the Farm: The Struggle Just to Get in the Door Part Three: Improving the Odds 6. Nine Mentors Who Changed the Odds 7. The Lesson: One Arm Around One Child 8. Evening the Odds: Making College Possible for the Poor Resource: Brief Biographies of the Twenty-Four Students Inverviewed.

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