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The road out [[electronic resource] ] : a teacher's odyssey in poor America / / Deborah Hicks



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Autore: Hicks Deborah Visualizza persona
Titolo: The road out [[electronic resource] ] : a teacher's odyssey in poor America / / Deborah Hicks Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
Disciplina: 371.822
Soggetto topico: Poor girls - Education - Ohio - Cincinnati
Poor white people - Education - Ohio - Cincinnati
Poor girls - Books and reading - Ohio - Cincinnati
Poor girls - Ohio - Cincinnati
Soggetto non controllato: adolescence
adult nonfiction
against the odds
appalachians
class differences
coming of age
contemporary history
education system
education
educators
ghetto
journey of discovery
learning
memoir
nonfiction account
poor america
poor neighborhoods
poverty cycle
poverty studies
poverty
power of fiction
race and class
single parent families
social advocates
social issues
social justice
student life
teachers and students
teachers
united states
women and girls
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: Ghost Rose speaks -- Elizabeth discovers her paperback -- We're sisters! -- My life as a girl -- Girl talk -- A magazine is born -- Mrs. Bush visits (but not our class) -- A Saturday at the bookstore -- Jessica finds Jesus, and Elizabeth finds love -- Blair discovers a voice -- Leavings -- At sixteen -- Girlhood interrupted -- I deserve a better life -- The road out.
Sommario/riassunto: Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students' lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save the most vulnerable of youth from a life of poverty? The Road Out is a gripping account of one teacher's journey of hope and discovery with her students-girls growing up poor in a neighborhood that was once home to white Appalachian workers, and is now a ghetto. Deborah Hicks, set out to give one group of girls something she never had: a first-rate education, and a chance to live their dreams. A contemporary tragedy is brought to life as she leads us deep into the worlds of Adriana, Blair, Mariah, Elizabeth, Shannon, Jessica, and Alicia?seven girls coming of age in poverty.This is a moving story about girls who have lost their childhoods, but who face the street's torments with courage and resiliency. "I want out," says 10-year-old Blair, a tiny but tough girl who is extremely poor and yet deeply imaginative and precocious. Hicks tries to convey to her students a sense of the power of fiction and of sisterhood to get them through the toughest years of adolescence. But by the time they're sixteen, eight years after the start of the class, the girls are experiencing the collision of their youthful dreams with the pitfalls of growing up in chaotic single-parent families amid the deteriorating cityscape. Yet even as they face disappointments and sometimes despair, these girls cling to their desire for a better future. The author's own life story-from a poorly educated girl in a small mountain town to a Harvard-educated writer, teacher, and social advocate-infuses this chronicle with a message of hope.
Titolo autorizzato: The road out  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95371-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826027803321
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