Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations? (Amer Sociological Association's Rose Ser)
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Book
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ISBN 10
0871540371
ISBN 13
9780871540379
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Publication Year
2007
Publisher
Russell Sage Foundation, United States
Pages
286
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The steady expansion of college enrollment rates over the last generation has been heralded as a major step toward reducing chronic economic disparities. But many of the policies that broadened access to higher education;including affirmative action, open admissions, and need-based financial aid ;have come under attack in recent years by critics alleging that schools are admitting unqualified students who are unlikely to benefit from a college education.
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