cloth, 264 Pages Pub. Date: December 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1-61250-120-8 Price: $44.95

For many students, we need more than effort and determination to enter higher education. Low-income minority students who overcome obstacles to achieve academic success often meet adults who have received at least one university education in school education, actively contact and specify concrete We will do academic guidance.

This is a timely and important book. Pivotal Moments are full of practical ideas on how to expand university admission opportunities for students who are not traditionally overlooked and too underestimated. Espinoza analyzed how to prepare more university of students through thorough investigation.

One of the most important public policy challenges of the 21st century is to come up with a way to increase the college admission rate of young people of the low income bracket. Roberta Espinoza provides clues as to how individuals inside and outside the classroom can give the students the power and can walk the way to the university. This is a detailed study on important information. Yes, individuals can make a difference! - William G. Tierney, University Professor, Professor of Higher Education, Wilbur Kieffer, Director, University of Southern California Higher Education Policy Analysis Center

"An attractive and insightful book by Roberta Espinoza will help explain the transformational influences of university educated adults (such as teachers and counselors) on the adverse student life, an important moment , The lives of these students, and the possibility to change our collective happiness. "

It is refreshing to read eloquent explanations about the moment of creation of educational possibilities for Espinoza's unconvincing students. Most importantly, these are conscious, not opportunities encounter. - Hugh Mehan, University of California, San Diego Emeritus Professor of Sociology, CREATE, Education Equality Center, Accessibility and Education Excellence

I think that most educators want to "do something" in their lives. This book will help all of us, teachers, counselors, government and private agencies.