Achieving College Dreams: How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School
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ISBN-13: 9780190260903 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication date: 04/14/2016 Pages: 444 Product dimensions: 9.50(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.20(d) 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,

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