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Overcoming the odds : the benefits of completing college for unlikely graduates / Jennie E. Brand.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brand, Jennie E., author.
- Series:
- Rose series in sociology
- The American sociological association's rose series in sociology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Social aspects.
- Education, Higher.
- College choice--Economic aspects.
- College choice.
- Universities and colleges--Admission.
- Universities and colleges.
- Youth with social disabilities--Education (Higher).
- Youth with social disabilities.
- Educational equalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 298 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
- Other Title:
- Benefits of completing college for unlikely graduates
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2023]
- Contents:
- Expanding access to higher education
- Diverse benefits for diverse graduates
- College counterfactuals and estimating effects
- Unequal college chances
- Cultivating privilege and circumventing precarity
- Forming families and preventing poverty
- Reducing social assistance
- Engaging in civic society
- Inequality and investment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 06, 2023).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tom Monahan Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Brand, Jennie E., Overcoming the odds
- ISBN:
- 9781610448932
- 1610448936
- Publisher Number:
- 99994580168
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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