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Breakaway learners : strategies for post-secondary success with at-risk students / Karen Gross.
Van Pelt Library LC4069.6 .G76 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gross, Karen, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Low-income college students--Services for--United States.
- Low-income college students.
- College student development programs--United States.
- College student development programs.
- Counseling in higher education--United States.
- Counseling in higher education.
- Educational mobility.
- College dropouts.
- United States.
- College dropouts--United States--Prevention.
- Educational mobility--United States.
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 224 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Can you see the stars at night?
- Anchoring lasticity
- Who are our students-now and into the future?
- Breakaway students and culture change
- Yes, the positives of toxic stress and trauma
- Elasticity, one of lasticity's building blocks
- The untapped power of plasticity
- Pivoting right
- Lasticity's reciprocal heart
- Belief in self isn't easy
- Animating lasticity on a college campus
- Lasticity big time
- Lasticity's hurdles and how to surmount them
- Money and its meaning
- Lasticity's growing urgency
- Lasticity's entrance into the lexicon
- Promises made and kept.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gross, Karen, 1952- Breakaway learners.
- ISBN:
- 9780807758427
- 0807758426
- 9780807758434
- 0807758434
- OCLC:
- 970383348
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