Expanding opportunity in higher education
Subtitle: leveraging promise
By: edited by Patricia Gandara, Gary Orfield, Catherine L. Horn.
Contributors: Gandara, Patricia C.; Orfield, Gary.; Horn, Catherine L.
Series: SUNY series, frontiers in education
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780791468630; 9780791468647
Subjects: Discrimination in higher education -- California.; Universities and colleges -- California -- Admission.; African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- California.; Hispanic Americans -- Education (Higher) -- California.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: California opportunity indicators / Jeannie Oakes, Julie Mendoza, and David Silver; title: Lowering barriers to college access / Brian K. Fitzgerald and Thomas J. Kane; title: The role of advanced placement and honors courses in college admissions / Saul Geiser and Veronica Santelices; title: K-12 and the pipeline to higher education / Charles A. Ratliff; title: Measuring the state of equity in public higher education / Estela Mara Bensimon, Lan Hao, and Leticia Tomas Bustillos; title: The effectiveness of the transfer path for educationally disadvantaged students / Stephen J. Handel, Margaret Heisel, and Barbara A. Hoblitzell; title: A strengthened community college role in teacher preparation / Nancy Shulock and Colleen Moore; title: Preparing a future professorate to successfully teach California's and the nation's Latino and African American students / Jorge Chapa; title: Access in California higher education / Bruce Hamlett.