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And still we rise
the trials and triumphs of twelve gifted inner-city high school students
1st ed.
by Miles Corwin
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"Miles Corwin spent the 1996-97 school year with a class of high school seniors enrolled in a gifted program in South-Central L.A., one of America's most impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods. And Still We Rise is the chronicle of these determined young people as they face the greatest challenge of their academic lives."--BOOK JACKET.
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Begabung, Innenstadt, Karriere, Schüler, Crenshaw High School (Los Angeles, Calif.), High school, Urban Education, Gifted children, Children with social disabilities, Education (Secondary), Case studies, New York Times reviewed, Gifted children, education, Children with social disabilities, education, Education, urbanPlaces
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And still we rise: the trials and triumphs of twelve gifted inner-city high school students
2000, William Morrow
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Table of Contents
Olivia: I don't want her
September. Sadikifu: Tell me why
Toya: I never dreamed I would see sixteen
Olivia: My only safe haven
Venola: My rainbow is waiting for me
Miesha: My talent is perseverance
Mama Moultrie: I touch lives
Fall. Toni Little: Learn to compete
Sabreen: One less child to support
Affirmative action: To treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently
Sabreen: A doll and a teddy bear
Latisha: Stolen childhood
Olivia: Easy money
South-Central: A sunlit ghetto
Claudia: Sacrifice and pressure
Curt: Stanford
Mama Moultrie: Our best hope
Olivia: Legal limbo
Toni Little: The ride of their lives
Second semester. Willie: Wishing it was just a dream
Naila: All-American
Olivia: Sentencing
Toya: I'm really here
Danielle: Education before athletics
Princess: A happy ending
Toni Little: The brink of madness
Spring. Olivia: Locked up
Scott Braxton: Drained
Yvonne Noble: Reading is fundamental
Mama Moultrie: Can I get an amen?
The fourth substitute: It's harder than it looks
Affirmative action: Equality as a result
Toni Little: I could use a little more time
The exam: where the rubber meets the road
Scott Allen: A different approach
Mama Moultrie: Some free advice
Graduation: Still we rise.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-418).
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