{"product_id":"9781595589040","title":"Hold Fast to Dreams: A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty","description":"\u003cbr\u003eWhen Joshua Steckel left his job as a college counselor at a private school on New York City’s Upper East Side to work at a public school in Brooklyn, he discovered that for low-income students the competitive game of college admissions has entirely different rules and much, much higher stakes. Instead of offering a doorway to opportunity, the college process presented endless obstacles for students who already battled poverty, violence, and low expectations. It caused Steckel to reexamine his assumptions about college.\u003cp\u003eEvery single one of the graduating seniors he has worked with in urban public high school has been accepted to college. To Steckel’s surprise, that turned out to be the easy part. \u003ci\u003eGetting In, Getting Out\u003c\/i\u003e follows ten of his students through the application process and college experience. At a time when the idea of “college for all” is both embraced and challenged, their stories defy all of the traditional assumptions about the meaning and value of higher education. This important book gives human faces to statistics about low college attendance and graduation rates among low-income students of color, and shows how a counselor’s belief in the potential of every student can transform futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046876528880,"sku":"9781595589040","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595589040_p0.jpg?v=1769901434","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595589040","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}