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Economic Inequality and Higher Education Access, Persistence, and Success / Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Ross Rubenstein, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Income distribution--United States.
- Income distribution.
- Education, Higher--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Education--Economic aspects--United States.
- Education.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The vast disparities in college attendance and graduation rates between students from different class backgrounds is a growing social concern.Economic Inequality and Higher Education investigates the connection between income inequality and unequal access to higher education, and proposes solutions that the state and federal governments and.
- Contents:
- Access, matriculation, and graduation / Robert Haveman and Kathryn Wilson
- Secondary and postsecondary linkages / Michael Kirst
- Remedial and developmental courses / Eric P. Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long
- Community colleges / Dan Goldhaber and Gretchen K. Peri
- Access to elites / Amanda Pallais and Sarah E. Turner
- Costs and implications / Amy Ellen Schwartz
- Reducing inequality in higher education / Ronald G. Ehrenberg.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-156-7
- OCLC:
- 608553425
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