Omari Scott Simmons

Potential on the Periphery: College Access from the Ground Up

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Profiles the Simmons Memorial Foundation, a grassroots non-profit organisation that promotes college access for students in North Carolina and Delaware. Omari Scott Simmons discusses how the organization has helped students secure admission and succeed in college, using this example to contextualize the broader realm of existing education practice, academic theory, and public policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780813592879
• ISBN-10: 0813592879
• Artikelnr.: 52612483

Autorenporträt

OMARI SCOTT SIMMONS is the Howard L. Oleck Professor of Business Law and the director of the Business Law Program at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the co-founder and executive director of the Simmons Memorial Foundation.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
Introduction   
1.         Origins
2.         The SMF College Access Program
3.         Challenges in College Access
4.         The Role of SMF Intervention
5.         Reforms
6.         Parting Thoughts
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index