Grit and Hope
A Year with Five Latino Students and the Program That Helped Them Aim for College
eBook | 17 May 2016 | Edition Number 1
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The book also follows Christopher Yanov, the program’s youthful, charismatic founder in a year that’s as critical for Reality Changers’ future as it is for the seniors. Yanov wants to grow Reality Changers into national visibility. He’s doubled the program’s size, and hired new employees, but he hasn’t anticipated that growing means he’ll have to surrender some control, and trust his new staff. It’s the story of a highly successful, yet flawed organization that must change in order to grow.
Told with deep affection and without sentimentality, the students stories show that although poverty and cultural deprivation seriously complicate youths’ efforts to launch into young adulthood, the support of a strong program makes a critical difference.
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Cast of Characters
Introduction
1. Across the Water
2. Senior Academy
3. Looking for a Home
4. Inventing Reality Changers
5. Dangerous Enough
6. Uphill
7. Doing RC: How It Works
8. Breaking Faith, Breaking Free
9. A Great Small Organization
10. Undocumented
11. Three-Day
12. Essay Crunch
13. Santiago Milagro and the Four-Year Plan
14. Walking on Water
15. Reset
16. The Guy Inside
17. Rocks on Her Legs
18. Stars and Projects and Everyone Else
19. Going the Distance with Eduardo
20. The Guy Outside
21. Getting In
22. The Costs of Their Dreams
23. Reckonings
24. Scholarship Banquet
25. The Evolution of Reality Changers
26. Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ISBN: 9780520960077
ISBN-10: 0520960076
Published: 17th May 2016
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 240
Publisher: University of California Press
Edition Number: 1
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