Use Grants, Not Loans, for Getting Low-Income Hispanics to College

Autor/in	Adam, Michelle
Titel	Use Grants, Not Loans, for Getting Low-Income Hispanics to College
Quelle	In: Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 72 (2007) 8, S.51-55 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-127X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Grants; Educational Policy; Educational Opportunities; Student Financial Aid; Low Income Groups; Access to Education; Hispanic American Students; College Bound Students; Disproportionate Representation; Higher Education; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Kanada
Abstract	The Educational Policy Institute (EPI) is an international think tank launched in 2002 "to expand educational opportunity for low-income and other historically underrepresented students through high-level research and analysis." Financial aid to students is a major element in expanding opportunity and thus is a major focus of EPI. Alex Usher, vice president of EPI International and director of EPI Canada, spent years exploring data in this arena. He wanted to determine, in particular, the actual value of grants, with the goal of helping focus policy more intently on aid to people who truly need it. This article discusses the report of Usher on the subject, "Grants for Students: What They Do, Why They Work," which includes a summary of current research. Usher's report offers evidence of the need for more focused grant aid, but it is up to politicians, who often happen to be coming from the middle class, to look beyond their own lives and their own experiences in order to be able to provide help for those who are really the most in need of help. It is then, and only then, according to Usher, that higher education can serve as the equalizer of classes and provide opportunities for all groups. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10