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Achieving College Dreams: How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School
Contributor(s): Weinstein, Rhona S. (Author), Worrell, Frank C. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0190260904     ISBN-13: 9780190260903
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $104.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Education & Training
- Education | Secondary
Dewey: 373.222
LCCN: 2015037543
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" L (1.72 lbs) 444 pages
Features: Index
 
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Achieving College Dreams: How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School tells the story of a remarkable 10-year collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley and Aspire Public Schools to develop and nurture the California College Preparatory
Academy. Bridging the two cultures--artfully described as Pac-Man (the charter district) meets chess (the university)--the school serves as an exemplar in providing low-income and first-generation college youth with an excellent and equitable education. Framed by a longitudinal lens, findings from
community-engaged scholarship, and a diversity of voices from students to superintendents, this book charts the journey from the initial decision to open a school to the high school graduation of its first two classes.

The book captures struggle, improvement, and success as it takes readers inside the workings of the partnership, the development of the school, and the spillover of effects across district and university. Confronting the challenge of interweaving rigor and support, its authors explore such critical
ingredients as teacher-student advisories; school transition; the home-school divide; building a supportive college-preparatory culture; teaching with depth, relational power, and equity; the forging of an academic identity; and scaling up.

At a time of sharply unequal schools, glaring disparities in college readiness, and heightened expectations, Achieving College Dreams uniquely extends the knowledge base about how to better prepare underserved students for college eligibility and success. The book also calls for universities to step
up to the plate as partners with districts to ensure both excellence and equity in secondary education for all children.
 
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