1: The Intergenerational Transmission of Hope

Zip Code Economies by Ellen J Chan

Jun 21, 201918:32Education

At first glance, Firebaugh doesn't seem to have much going for it as a small, agricultural community in the fifth poorest region in America. Yet somehow 97% of students in this primarily immigrant town graduate high scho...

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