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- catalog abstract "This important new book is based on the findings of the Illinois Valedictorian Project, the first systematic research study of high school valedictorians. Lives of Promise examines the question of what doing well in school actually means. The study follows the academic and nonacademic lives of 81 high school valedictorians for 14 years after graduation. The author, Karen D. Arnold, documents not only a generation of students who began their adult lives in America during the 1980s and 1990s, but also the viability of some of our fundamental assumptions about what our schools measure and reward. Written in accessible, jargon-free language, this book explores the obstacles that hinder our presumed future leaders. Using illuminating examples, the author provides lessons about the nature of success, the consequences of academic achievement, and the conditions that foster attainment in early adulthood. The book addresses head-on the urgent national debates on the failure of American education to develop future leaders from our increasingly diverse pool of youth.".
- catalog contributor b8518237.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "1. Pomp and circumstance -- 2. School smart: becoming high school valedictorian -- 3. What Is success? Envisioning the ultimate -- 4. Life after the first B: going to college -- 5. Contingency planning: women and careers -- 6. Hidden lessons: race, class, and tacit knowledge -- 7. Channels of success: from college to career -- 8. Delights and troubles: becoming anadult -- 9. The full plate stage: entering the thirties -- 10. Values and vocations: the mission of achievement -- 11. What really happens to high school valedictorians?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-320) and index.".
- catalog description "This important new book is based on the findings of the Illinois Valedictorian Project, the first systematic research study of high school valedictorians. Lives of Promise examines the question of what doing well in school actually means. The study follows the academic and nonacademic lives of 81 high school valedictorians for 14 years after graduation. The author, Karen D. Arnold, documents not only a generation of students who began their adult lives in America during the 1980s and 1990s, but also the viability of some of our fundamental assumptions about what our schools measure and reward. Written in accessible, jargon-free language, this book explores the obstacles that hinder our presumed future leaders.".
- catalog description "Using illuminating examples, the author provides lessons about the nature of success, the consequences of academic achievement, and the conditions that foster attainment in early adulthood. The book addresses head-on the urgent national debates on the failure of American education to develop future leaders from our increasingly diverse pool of youth.".
- catalog extent "xix, 330 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Lives of promise.".
- catalog identifier "0787901466 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Lives of promise.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Lives of promise.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "373.12/912/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Educational surveys United States.".
- catalog subject "High school graduates United States Longitudinal studies.".
- catalog subject "LB1695.6 .A75 1995".
- catalog subject "Life skills United States Longitudinal studies.".
- catalog subject "Success United States Longitudinal studies.".
- catalog subject "Talented students United States Longitudinal studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Pomp and circumstance -- 2. School smart: becoming high school valedictorian -- 3. What Is success? Envisioning the ultimate -- 4. Life after the first B: going to college -- 5. Contingency planning: women and careers -- 6. Hidden lessons: race, class, and tacit knowledge -- 7. Channels of success: from college to career -- 8. Delights and troubles: becoming anadult -- 9. The full plate stage: entering the thirties -- 10. Values and vocations: the mission of achievement -- 11. What really happens to high school valedictorians?".
- catalog title "Lives of promise : what becomes of high school valedictorians : a fourteen-year study of achievement and life choices / Karen D. Arnold.".
- catalog type "Longitudinal studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".