Breakaway Learners

Explores how institutions of higher education can successfully serve ""breakaway"" students - first-generation, low-income students who are trying to break away from the past in order to create a more secure future. In this provocative book, Gross offers a new approach to addressing inequities by focusing on students who have succeeded despite struggling with the impacts of poverty and trauma.

Exploreaza modul in care institutiile de invatamant superior pot deservi cu succes studentii „„ ruptori ”„ - studenti din prima generatie, cu venituri mici, care incearca sa se desprinda de trecut pentru a crea un viitor mai sigur. In aceasta carte provocatoare, Gross ofera o noua abordare a abordarii inechitatilor, concentrandu-se asupra studentilor care au reusit in ciuda luptei cu impactul saraciei si al traumelor.