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And Still We Rise
The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-city Students
Miles Corwin
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · March 20, 2001
Reading lane: Prejudice & Racism for Teens
Bestselling author of The Killing Season and veteran Los Angeles Times reporter Miles Corwin spent a school year with twelve high school seniors -- South-Central kids who qualified for a gifted program because of their exceptional IQs and test scores.
At a Glance
Why This Clicks
Promise Under Pressure
A school-year portrait brings gifted students’ academic ambitions into close view amid formidable obstacles.
Come here for
- The tension between exceptional promise and hard-won opportunity
- A grounded look at gifted students’ school lives
Expect
- A year spent alongside twelve high school seniors
- Classrooms shaped by challenges beyond academic demands
Book Details
- Authors
- Miles Corwin
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- March 20, 2001
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Prejudice & Racism for Teens · African American U.S. History for Teens
- Reading lane
- Prejudice & Racism for Teens
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Educational Psychology
History of Education
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Child Psychology
Therapy for Kids & Teens
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Mental Health
About This Book
Bestselling author of The Killing Season and veteran Los Angeles Times reporter Miles Corwin spent a school year with twelve high school seniors -- South-Central kids who qualified for a gifted program because of their exceptional IQs and test scores. Sitting alongside them in classrooms where bullets were known to rip through windows, Corwin chronicled their amazing odyssey as they faced the greatest challenges of their academic lives. And Still We Rise is an unforgettable...
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