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Passing the torch : does higher education for the disadvantaged pay off across the generations? / Paul Attewell and David E. Lavin ; in collaboration with Thurston Domina and Tania Levey.
LIBRA LC4069.6 .A87 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Attewell, Paul A., 1949-
- Series:
- Rose series in sociology
- American Sociological Association's Rose series in sociology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth with social disabilities--Education (Higher)--United States.
- Youth with social disabilities.
- Educational equalization--United States.
- Educational equalization.
- College graduates.
- Economic conditions.
- Youth with social disabilities--Education (Higher).
- United States.
- College graduates--United States--Economic conditions.
- Social mobility--United States.
- Social mobility.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2007]
- Contents:
- Passing the torch: an overview
- Thirty years later: educational attainments
- How families fared: the college payoff
- Breaking the cycle of disadvantage: maternal education and children's success
- How college changes a mother's parenting and affects her children's educational outcomes
- Dads and neighborhoods: their contributions to children's success
- Mass higher education and its critics
- The bottom line: the difference that open access makes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780871540379
- 0871540371
- OCLC:
- 73140155
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