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Achieving College Dreams - How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School (Hardcover)
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Achieving College Dreams - How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School (Hardcover)
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Achieving College Dreams: How a University-Charter District
Partnership Created an Early College High School tells the story of
a remarkable 10-year collaboration between the University of
California, Berkeley and Aspire Public Schools to develop and
nurture the California College Preparatory Academy. Bridging the
two cultures-artfully described as "Pac-Man (the charter district)
meets chess (the university)"-the school serves as an exemplar in
providing low-income and first-generation college youth with an
excellent and equitable education. Framed by a longitudinal lens,
findings from community-engaged scholarship, and a diversity of
voices from students to superintendents, this book charts the
journey from the initial decision to open a school to the high
school graduation of its first two classes. The book captures
struggle, improvement, and success as it takes readers inside the
workings of the partnership, the development of the school, and the
spillover of effects across district and university. Confronting
the challenge of interweaving rigor and support, its authors
explore such critical ingredients as teacher-student advisories;
school transition; the home-school divide; building a supportive
college-preparatory culture; teaching with depth, relational power,
and equity; the forging of an academic identity; and scaling up. At
a time of sharply unequal schools, glaring disparities in college
readiness, and heightened expectations, Achieving College Dreams
uniquely extends the knowledge base about how to better prepare
underserved students for college eligibility and success. The book
also calls for universities to step up to the plate as partners
with districts to ensure both excellence and equity in secondary
education for all children.
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