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Title:

Minding the gap : why integrating high school with college makes sense and how to do it / edited by Nancy Hoffman ... [et al.]

Publisher:

Harvard Education Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

ix, 319 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

College-school cooperation--United States.
Educational equalization--United States.
Education, Higher--United States.
Education, Secondary--United States.
Universities and colleges--United States.
High schools--United States.
Curriculum change.
Finance--Education--United States.

Other Authors:

Hoffman, Nancy.
Vargas, Joel.
Venezia, Andrea, 1969-
Miller, Marc S.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-299) and index.

Summary:

"Minding the gap argues that in today's highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book explores policies and practices that would quickly enable a larger number of low-income and first-generation college students to earn postsecondary degrees. In doing so, Minding the gap call for a system that thoroughly integrates secondary and postsecondary education -- a system in which a college degree is the goal for all students." -- P. [4] of cover.

ISBN:

1891792466 (library ed.)
9781891792465 (library ed.)
1891792458 (pbk.)
9781891792458 (pbk.)

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)