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And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students

Miles Corwin

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

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Original Title:	And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students
ISBN:	0380798298 (ISBN13: 9780380798292)
Edition Language:	English

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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 story of transcending obstacles that would dash the hopes of any but the most exceptional spirits.

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Title	:	And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students
Author	:	Miles Corwin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	March 20th 2001 by Harper Perennial (first published April 26th 2000)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Education. Academic. School. Teaching

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I really enjoyed this well-written story that follows a group of incredibly intelligent high school seniors as they navigate the challenges of attending an inner-city high school while attempting to maintain high grades. The book describes the many obstacles faced by the students, including but not limited to gang activity, poverty, history of abuse, lack of parental involvement, insufficient academic resources (i.e. books, copies of handouts), etc. It describes the role of affirmative action in

This was a good book and I read it with an open mind, but it bothered me for two reasons. It's about affirmative action and it details systematic poverty. The author is a reporter that wanted to show why race based affirmative action is necessary at a time when it was ending. To do so, he chronicled the lives of some black high school students and their leap into the world of college. I'm not sure that this was the best way for him to pose his argument and it was hard to keep track of the

interesting. Stresses the importance of education

This non-fiction book opened my eyes to a whole world I am unfamiliar with - inner-city South-Central Las Angeles California with minorities (mainly black). It was amazing! The author spent a year (1997)observing/interviewing the gifted seniors of Crenshaw High School, in South-Central LA. He highlighted 12 students in particular who had incredible stories with trials and triumps. The story is true and written so well that I was just in awe of the lives they live (and many still do). It made me

The author of this book spent one school year with an AP English class of seniors in an inner city school in Los Angeles. This was in 1997, the last class to be admitted to college under Affirmative Action. He also spent some time with the AP Juniors because they were the first group to have to face college without Affirmative Action. Regardless of how you feel about Affirmative Action, this book will make you rethink the policy. This author was able to describe the home lives of the students in



Journalist follows the class of 1997 at Crenshaw High's Gifted Magnet program. NOT the story of a teacher coming in and saving these students, but told from the perspective of the students. The family situations, work commitments, abuse history, gang and violence experiences, etc. that these kids deal with on a daily basis - all while taking AP high school classes touched my heart and boggled my mind at the same time.I picked this up because Crenshaw High is close to where I live - it's an easy