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Expanding opportunity in higher education leveraging promise

Title
Expanding opportunity in higher education [electronic resource] : leveraging promise / edited by Patricia Gandara, Gary Orfield, Catherine Horn.
Publication
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Gandara, Patricia C.
  • Orfield, Gary.
  • Horn, Catherine L.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 302 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
SUNY series, frontiers in education
Uniform Title
Expanding opportunity in higher education (Online)
Subject
  • Discrimination in higher education > California
  • Universities and colleges > California > Admission
  • African Americans > Education (Higher) > California
  • Hispanic Americans > Education (Higher) > California
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Introduction: creating a 21st-cetury vision of access and qquity in higher education / Patricia Gandara and Gary Orfield -- California opportunity indicators: informing and monitoring California's progress toward equitable college access / Jeannie Oakes, Julie Mendoza, and David Silver -- Lowering barriers to college access: opportunities for more effective coordination of state and drderal student aid policies / Brian K. Fitzgerald -- The role of advanced placement and honors courses in college admissions / Saul Geiser and Veronica Santelices -- K-12 and the pipeline to higher education / Charles A. Ratliff -- Measuring the state of equity in public higher education / Estela Mara Bensimon, Lan Hao, and Leticia Tomas Bustillos -- Reaping the benefits of grutter: college admissions and racial/ethnic diversity / The effectiveness of the transfer path for educationally disadvantaged students : California as a case study in the development of a dual admissions program / Stephen J. Handel, Margaret Heisel, and Barbara A. Hoblitzell -- A strengthened community college role in teacher preparation : improving outcomes for California's minority students / Nancy Shulock and Colleen Moore -- The educational pipeline and the future Professorate: who will teach California's and the nation's Latino and African American college students? / Jorge Chapa -- Access in California higher education: the promise and the performance / Bruce Hamlett.
LCCN
2005030809
OCLC
ssj0000151955
Title
Expanding opportunity in higher education [electronic resource] : leveraging promise / edited by Patricia Gandara, Gary Orfield, Catherine Horn.
Imprint
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2006.
Series
SUNY series, frontiers in education
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Gandara, Patricia C.
Orfield, Gary.
Horn, Catherine L.
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