num_pages: 161
description: Price (Lumina Foundation for Education) draws on a national study of student borrowing patterns to explore the impact of loans on minority and low-income students. He finds that these students are more likely to borrow than their white and high-income peers, but less likely to graduate from high-status institutions or go on to graduate school. Further, current loan programs can restrict borrowers' career opportunities, in effect perpetuating the patterns of inequality the programs were intended to alleviate. Price proposes aid policies that would expand students' range of college and career choices and therefore support the role of higher education as a vehicle for both individual opportunity and social change. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Borrowing Inequality: Race, Class, and Student Loans
titlecomplete: Borrowing Inequality: Race, Class, and Student Loans
publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub