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Over the ivy walls

the educational mobility of low-income Chicanos

By Patricia C. Gandara

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Publish Date

1995

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Language

eng

Pages

151

Description:

Unique among literature on minority and Chicano academic achievement, Over the Ivy Walls focuses on factors that create academic successes rather than examining school failure. It weaves existing research on academic achievement into an analysis of the lives of 50 low income Chicanos for whom schooling "worked" and became an important vehicle for social mobility. Gandara examines their early home lives, school experiences, and peer relations in search of clues to what "went right."