Working Class to College
Subtitle: The Promise and Peril Facing Blue-Collar America
Publisher: Dust Jacket Media Group; University of Illinois Press in association with GSBF Media
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780252041105
Subjects: Working class, education; Education, higher, united states; Educational change; Education and state
Description: This book exposes an education class divide that is threatening the American dream of upward social mobility and sowing resentment among those shut out or staggering under crushing debt. The book addresses ways to reduce college costs and shares the inspiring accounts of those who have endured all sorts of hardship "homelessness, an incarcerated parent, dangerously low self-esteem--and fought their way to college and commencement.