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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Taking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life, the author describes the profound moral conflicts for parents take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not pay off.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet nine courageous young adults who have lived in the United States with a secret for much of their lives: they are not U.S. citizens. They came from Colombia, Mexico, Ghana, Independent Samoa, and Korea. They came seeking education, fleeing violence, and escaping poverty. All have heartbreaking and hopeful stories about leaving their homelands and starting a new life in America. And all are weary of living in the shadows.
Author
Series
Publisher
For Dummies, a Wiley brand
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"529 & Education Savings Plans For Dummies is your easy-to-follow and up-to-date guide to 529s, Coverdell accounts, and other savings and investment vehicles. Understand the costs associated with education, both right now and in the future, and then find ways to pay for those costs"--
Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
En esta obra, la discriminación hacia los mexicanos en Estados Unidos, la violencia del sistema carcelario y la deportación de indocumentados se enriquecen con recuerdos y reflexiones sobre la vida, el arte y la filosofía. El periodista y el expandillero se mezclan y se enredan en un viaje entre la crónica y la biografía que representa la vida de muchos emigrantes.
10) Disorientation
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity"--
11) The state must provide: why America's colleges have always been unequal -- and how to set them right
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Presents a definitive chronicle of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education, weaving through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A leading African American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy, revealing that leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
14) Fail state
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In an expansive documentary exposé, the filmmakers reveal the dark story behind the rise of predatory for-profit colleges and how a cabal of politicians and unscrupulous business tycoons sold out the dream of American higher education.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer, editor, and college professor, The Tyranny of Virtue is a precise and nuanced insider's look at shifts in American culture--most especially in the American academy--that so many people find alarming. Part memoir and part polemic, an anatomy of important and dangerous ideas, and a cri de coeur lamenting the erosion of standard liberal values, Boyers's collection...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"How do we talk about Black history and racism in the United States on college campuses? In a series of essays, Professor Leonard Moore outlines how he has taught courses on African American history at colleges with a largely white student body. As an African American professor, he has had to find ways to teach to a diverse classroom, but one that is often dominated by white students with little prior knowledge of this history. Moore discusses how...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a brilliant, absorbing study of Jefferson and his campaign to save Virginia through education. By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. Thomas Jefferson shares center stage with his family and fellow planters, all dependent on the labor of enslaved black families. With a declining Virginia yielding to...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 2001 a bill was presented to the US Congress, known as the DREAM Act. The purpose of this bill was to fix the immigration status of almost two million undocumented youth who came to the country as minors through no choice of their own but now as young adults, with no legal identity, they may be unable to attend college, and live under the constant threat of deportation. These young people are known as Dreamers. As part of activist organizations...
Author
Publisher
Blue River Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Ancillary Army. Freeway Flyers. Roads Scholars. Turnpike Teachers. These are some of the nicknames given to part-time college teachers. They may teach one or two courses at a single institution, or, in some cases, they may teach multiple courses at multiple institutions. Often their office consists of the front seat of their car, and their desk is a cardboard box. Their lunch is whatever they can grab at McDonalds while zipping through traffic...
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