And still we rise
Subtitle: the trials and triumphs of twelve gifted inner-city high school students
By: Miles Corwin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780380976508
Subjects: Begabung; Innenstadt; Karriere; Schüler; Crenshaw High School (Los Angeles, Calif.); High school; Gifted children; Urban Education; Children with social disabilities; Education (Secondary); Case studies
Description: "Miles Corwin spent the 1996-97 school year with a class of high school seniors enrolled in a gifted program in South-Central L.A., one of America's most impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods. And Still We Rise is the chronicle of these determined young people as they face the greatest challenge of their academic lives."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-418).
Table of contents: title: Olivia: I don't want her; title: September. Sadikifu: Tell me why; title: Toya: I never dreamed I would see sixteen; title: Olivia: My only safe haven; title: Venola: My rainbow is waiting for me; title: Miesha: My talent is perseverance; title: Mama Moultrie: I touch lives; title: Fall. Toni Little: Learn to compete; title: Sabreen: One less child to support; title: Affirmative action: To treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently; title: Sabreen: A doll and a teddy bear; title: Latisha: Stolen childhood; title: Olivia: Easy money; title: South-Central: A sunlit ghetto; title: Claudia: Sacrifice and pressure; title: Curt: Stanford; title: Mama Moultrie: Our best hope; title: Olivia: Legal limbo; title: Toni Little: The ride of their lives; title: Second semester. Willie: Wishing it was just a dream; title: Naila: All-American; title: Olivia: Sentencing; title: Toya: I'm really here; title: Danielle: Education before athletics; title: Princess: A happy ending; title: Toni Little: The brink of madness; title: Spring. Olivia: Locked up; title: Scott Braxton: Drained; title: Yvonne Noble: Reading is fundamental; title: Mama Moultrie: Can I get an amen?; title: The fourth substitute: It's harder than it looks; title: Affirmative action: Equality as a result; title: Toni Little: I could use a little more time; title: The exam: where the rubber meets the road; title: Scott Allen: A different approach; title: Mama Moultrie: Some free advice; title: Graduation: Still we rise.