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Title: And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students by Miles Corwin ISBN: 0-380-79829-8 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Compelling and Entertaining
Comment: This book was thoroughly entertaining. The fact that the story does not have a predictable happy ending makes it even more realistic and enjoyable to read.
This book should be mandatory reading for all teachers who begin their teaching careers in the inner city. It should also be required reading for middle class high school students who question the need for affirmative action. The students profiled in this book would run circles around your average middle class teenager.
Rating: 5
Summary: RISE BEFORE YOU DROWN
Comment: Nothing good can come out of a ghetto school especially one in South Central Los Angeles. If you believe in that statement then Miles Corwin's "And Still We Rise" will shatter your stereotype of the typical high school ghetto students. Corwin chronicles the lives of twelve exceptional high school students during the school year of 1996-1997. We are taken on a journey in the lives of these young people who battle gang violence, abuse, homelessness, and full time work to become great academic achievers in their high school. Corwin raises some pertinent questions that we need to consider. Why for example, are few advance placement classes offered in poor communties and inner city schools? Why are school administrators and teachers are allowed to play their petty political games at the expense of the students? Does the death of Affirmative Action mean the future absence of minority students in our nations' colleges and universities? Why are we willing to write off the education of our students simply because of their race and their economic conditions? The fact that these young people were able to rise above the conditions placed upon them is a testament to the human spirit's tenacity. How many more are there that need a boost to rise above those limitations that even adults find disconcerting? I enjoyed Corwin's text because it showed even in the worst of circumstances there is hope and it is a clarion call for us to become more active in the school system. Most of all it allowed us to get a brief glimpse of the lives of these inspirational young people. I highly recommend this book as a text not only for inspiration but for intervention in a system that fails its students.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Quiet Crisis
Comment: I fell in love with South Central Los Angeles through reading this book. Corwin has this style of writing that is so elegant and wordy and, ugh! I can't put into words how much this book meant to me. I just finished a class on Multicultural Education and this book was a required text. Through reading this book and "Affirming Diversity" by Sonia Nieto, which I highly recommend for anyone in the teaching field or entering into the teaching field, I was able to connect the information I was reading in the textbook to the real life examples Corwin writes about. The stories of these twelve teens are compelling and my emotions soared throughout the book. Corwin educates readers about affirmative action, resistance theory, and other theories involved in the education system through his writing of experiences in Crenshaw High School. I can't stress enough how much I recommend this book to any reader. It is life changing.
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Title: A Hope in the Unseen : An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League by RON SUSKIND ISBN: 0767901266 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 04 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Killing Season : A Summer Inside an LAPD Homicide Division by MILES CORWIN ISBN: 0449002918 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 28 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Multicultural Gifted Education (Education and Psychology of the Gifted Series (Paper)) by Donna Y. Ford, J. John Harris ISBN: 0807738506 Publisher: Teachers College Pr Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester by Derrick A. Bell ISBN: 0807009261 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Sources Notable Selections in Race and Ethnicity by Adalberto Aguirre, David V. Baker ISBN: 0072430893 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.90 |
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