Title: Over the ivy walls
First published: 1995
Description: Unique among literature on minority and Chicano academic achievement, Over the Ivy Walls focuses on factors that create academic successes rather than examining school failure. It weaves existing research on academic achievement into an analysis of the lives of 50 low income Chicanos for whom schooling "worked" and became an important vehicle for social mobility. Gandara examines their early home lives, school experiences, and peer relations in search of clues to what "went right."
Subjects: Education (Higher), Mexican Americans, Academic achievement, Social aspects, Educational sociology, Economic aspects, Educational mobility, Sociologie de l'éducation, EDUCATION, Bilingual Education, Schoolloopbaan, Succes, Sociale mobiliteit, Mexicaanse Amerikanen, Special Topics Education, Social Sciences, Minorities, education, united states
Places: United States
LC classification: LC2683.6 .G36 1995