The promise
Subtitle: how one woman made good on her extraordinary pact to send a classroom of first graders to college
By: Oral Lee Brown with Caille Millner.
Contributors: Millner, Caille.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Brown, Oral Lee; Elementary school teachers -- California -- Oakland -- Biography; Benefactors -- California -- Oakland -- Biography; Women benefactors -- California -- Oakland -- Biography; Universities and colleges -- California -- Oakland -- Finance -- Case studies; Students with social disabilities -- Education -- California -- Oakland -- Case studies
Genres: Biography.; Case studies.
Description: Presents the story of a woman who promised a classroom of first graders that she would pay for their college education, describing how through saving, sacrificing, and the creation of a foundation, she kept her promise.