Minding the Gap
Subtitle: Why Integrating High School With College Makes Sense and How to Do It
Contributors: Nancy Hoffman (Editor); Joel Vargas (Editor); Andrea Venezia (Editor); Marc S. Miller (Editor)
Publisher: Harvard Educational Pub Group; Harvard Education Press
Published: September 4, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781891792465
Subjects: Educational Policy & Reform; Secondary; Education
Description: "Minding the gap argues that in today's highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book explores policies and practices that would quickly enable a larger number of low-income and first-generation college students to earn postsecondary degrees. In doing so, Minding the gap calls for a system that thoroughly integrates secondary and postsecondary education -- a system in which a college degree is the goal for all students."--Page 4 of cover.