Won't lose this dream : how an upstart urban university rewrote the rules of a broken system
by Gumbel, Andrew (Author)
Summary
Over the past decade Georgia State University has upended the conventional wisdom that large numbers of students are doomed to fail simply because of their economic background or the color of their skin. Instead, it has harnessed the power of big data to identify and remove the obstacles that previo... Full description
- Introduction: The dreariness with those Harvard kids
- Fishing village
- Admit them
- Who are we? Where are we going?
- The path to destruction
- Multidimensional chess
- Moneyball on campus
- This is not a scam, do not hang up
- A well-managed plantation
- Birth of an idea
- The feeling is mutual
- A hundred years from now
- Rogue cows
- Secure the bag
- Reproducibility.