Economic inequality and higher education
Subtitle: access, persistence and success
By: edited by Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Ross Rubenstein.
Contributors: Dickert-Conlin, Stacy.; Rubenstein, Ross H.
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780871543202
Subjects: Education -- Economic aspects -- United States; Education, Higher -- United States; Income distribution -- United States
Description: This book addresses the premise that students from less economically privileged families face considerable barriers to entering and completing college; that without access and persistance, higher education does not necessarily mean success for lower-income individuals and does not spur greater economic opportunity and mobility nor reduce existing gaps between the "haves" and the "have nots."
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Ross Rubenstein; title: Economic inequality in college access, matriculation, and graduation / Robert Haveman and Kathryn Wilson; title: Overcoming educational inequality : improving secondary education linkages with broad access postsecondary education / Michael Kirst; title: Institutional responses to reduce inequalities in college outcomes : remedial and developmental courses in higher education / Eric P. Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long; title: Higher education and inequality : the increasingly important role community colleges play in higher education / Dan Goldhaber and Gretchen Kiefer; title: Access to elites : the growth of programs to increase opportunities for low-income students at selective universities / Amanda Pallais and Sarah E. Turner; title: The cost of college and implications for income inequality / Amy Ellen Schwartz; title: Reducing inequality in higher education : where do we go from here? / Ronald G. Ehrenberg.