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Welcome to Getting Ahead Network |
 Getting Ahead is both a workbook and an experience. It's based on Philip DeVol's Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin'-by-World: Building Your Resources for a Better Life. Participants, called Investigators, work in groups to examine the impact of poverty on themselves and their communities and to explore the world through the lens of economic class. Their investigations produce information that is needed to design successful approaches to ending poverty and building sustainable communities. The Investigators create plans to build their own resources and come to the decision-making and planning tables in their communities as fellow problem-solvers with people from all classes, races, sectors, and political persuasions.
The Getting Ahead Network is designed for Getting Ahead Investigators, facilitators, and sponsoring organizations. It's a place where we can celebrate successes at the individual and community level. We can tell stories, share best practices, and help each other improve the workbook and the investigative and learning experience. This website shares the inspiration and the tools needed to prepare ourselves for ending poverty and building communities where everyone can do well.
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Investigations into Economic Class in America |
Getting Ahead for college students Investigations grew out of a demand for a version of Getting Ahead that would work for college students. As several colleges used Getting Ahead with good results, it became clear that we needed to tailor something specific for the campus life that would also be credit-bearing. I asked Karla Krodel, who had used Getting Ahead at Youngstown State University, to co-author the workbook and facilitator notes with me. Karla is also the co-author, with Karen Becker and Bethanie Tucker, of Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced College Students which is a companion book to Investigations. Since we began writing this book, we’ve had the help of Getting Ahead graduates who are now attending college. We have also received ideas and feedback from faculty from several community colleges and four-year institutions.
Investigations will become available in June 2010. Here are some comments from those who have seen reader copies of Investigations or used a draft form of it as students:
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