How Colleges Perpetuate Inequality

Autor/in	Sacks, Peter
Titel	How Colleges Perpetuate Inequality
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 53 (2007) 19, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Aptitude Tests; Academic Aptitude; Selective Admission; Equal Education; Low Income; Academic Degrees; Higher Education; Colleges; Student Diversity; Socioeconomic Background; College Entrance Examinations; College Attendance; SAT (College Admission Test) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aptitude test; Eignungsprüfung; Eignungstest; Bildungsselektion; Niedriglohn; Degree; Degrees; Academic level graduation; Akademischer Grad; Hochschulabschluss; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Sozioökonomische Lage; Aufnahmeprüfung; Colleges; Attendance; Anwesenheit
Abstract	Colleges, once seen as beacons of egalitarian hope, are becoming bastions of wealth and privilege that perpetuate inequality. The chance of a low-income child obtaining a bachelor's degree has not budged in three decades: Just 6 percent of students from the lowest-income families earned a bachelor's degree by age 24 in 1970, and in 2002 still only 6 percent did. Lower still is that child's chance of attending one of America's top universities. In this article, the author describes how the system in higher education and elite colleges bends its standards to admit children of the rich and famous. He further contends that if those institutions truly wanted to create more socioeconomic diversity, they would open up the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10