Shut Out : Low Income Mothers and Higher Education in Post-Welfare America.

Intro -- Shut Out -- Contents -- Introduction by Peggy Kahn, Sandra S. Butler, Luisa Stormer Deprez, and Valerie Polakow -- 1. Debunking the Myth of the Failure of Education and Training for Welfare Recipients: A Critique of the Research by Erika Kates -- 2. Failing Low Income Students: Education and Training in the Age of Welfare Reform by Lizzy Ratner -- 3. "That's Not How I Want to Live": Student Mothers Fight to Stay in School under Michigan's Welfare-to-Work Regime by Peggy Kahn and Valerie Polakow -- 4. Connecting and Reconnecting to Work: Low Income Mothers' Participation in Publicly Funded Training Programs by Frances J. Riemer -- 5. Supporting or Blocking Educational Progress?: The Impact of College Policies, Programs, and Practices on Low Income Single Mothers by Sally Sharp -- 6. Student Financial Aid and Low Income Mothers by Donald E. Heller and Stefani A. Bjorklund -- 7. Credentials Count: How California's Community Colleges Help Parents Move from Welfare to Self-Sufficiency by Anita K. Mathur with Judy Reichle, Julie Strawn, and Chuck Wiseley -- 8. "This Little Light of Mine": Parent Activists Struggling for Access to Post-Secondary Education in Appalachian Kentucky by Christiana Miewald -- 9. College Access and Leadership-Building for Low Income Women: Boston's Women in Community Development by Deborah Clarke and Lynn Peterson -- 10. Transcending Welfare: Creating a GI Bill for Working Families by Julie L.Watts and Aiko Schaefer -- 11. Securing Higher Education for Women on Welfare in Maine by Luisa Stormer Deprez, Sandra S. Butler, and Rebekah J. Smith -- Afterword by The Editors -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

Documents the economic, educational, and existential struggles that single mothers in poverty confront in the current welfare climate.

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