Won't Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System
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Andrew Gumbel., & Andrew Gumbel|AUTHOR. (2020). Won't Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System . The New Press.

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Andrew Gumbel and Andrew Gumbel|AUTHOR. Won't Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System The New Press, 2020.

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More than any other institution in the country, Georgia State has overturned the assumption that poorer students are doomed to fail. Won't Lose This Dream describes how the architects of Georgia State's success harnessed the power of evolving data technologies, a "moneyball" strategy that helped them recognize and remove the obstacles that have held poor students back. Veteran journalist Andrew Gumbel uncovers the human stories behind these innovations, tracing real students as they realize lifelong dreams of graduating from college.

Today, a Georgia State freshman who arrives homeless and hungry is no less likely to succeed than the daughter of a billionaire. African American, Hispanic, and low-income students now graduate from GSU at rates equal to or higher than those of other students. In fact, GSU has raised its graduation rate to 55 percent in 2018 from 32 percent in 2003 and, since 2014, has awarded more bachelor's degrees to African Americans than any other nonprofit college or university in the country. More than just a story about higher education, Won't Lose This Dream is a tale that points the way to wholesale societal transformation.
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