A Year Up
Subtitle: rediscovering America and the talent within
By: Gerald Chertavian
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780670023776
Subjects: Occupational training; Vocational education; Higher Education; Year Up (Organization); Young adults; Poor youth; Employment; Internship programs
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: honk for opportunity; title: "Yo, God. what are you doing?"; title: Brother from another zip code; title: Why is he doing this?; title: Ping me; title: please?; title: "You don't have a chance in hell"; title: Don't lose it now!; title: Oh, pioneers!; title: "Reach and strive for 2005!"; title: Guilty by association; title: "I am having an intern moment"; title: Abdul, in a state of grace; title: The soul of a new machine; title: "We are one year up"; title: I think that woman saved my life; title: Epilogue: wheels up for opportunity.