Education and Class

• Two-year colleges serve more disadvantaged students with less money | Inside Higher Ed

  Growing economic and racial stratification in higher ed in the US.

  “Fewer than 12 percent of community college students earn a bachelor’s degree within six years of enrolling, the report said, while 81 percent of incoming students said they wanted to transfer and eventually earn at least a bachelor’s degree.
  The federal government has long sought to level the economic playing field in K-12 schools, according to the report. That has not happened in higher education.”

  tags: social class

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