Over the Ivy Walls: The Educational Mobility of Low-Income Chicanos

By Patricia C. Gandara and Patricia Gándara

Book Overview

Explores social factors that lead to academic success for low-income Chicanos.

Unique among literature on minority and Chicano academic achievement, Over the Ivy Walls focuses on factors that create academic successes rather than examining school failure. It weaves existing research on academic achievement into an analysis of the lives of 50 low-income Chicanos for whom schooling "worked" and became an important vehicle for social mobility. G ndara examines their early home lives, school experiences, and peer relations in search of clues to what "went right."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791426106
• ISBN13: 9780791426104
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher