Passing the torch : does higher education for the disadvantaged pay off across the generations? /

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"In Passing the Torch, Paul Attewell and David E. Lavin follow students admitted, under the City University of New York's "open admissions" policy, tracking its effects on them and their children, to find out whether widening college access can accelerate social mobility across g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Attewell, Paul A., 1949-
Otros Autores: Lavin, David E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2007.
Colección:Rose series in sociology.
Temas:
Youth with social disabilities > Education (Higher) > United States.
Educational equalization > United States.
College graduates > United States > Economic conditions.
Social mobility > United States.
Démocratisation de l'enseignement > États-Unis.
Diplômés d'université > États-Unis > Conditions économiques.
Mobilité sociale > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Higher.
College graduates > Economic conditions
Educational equalization
Social mobility
Youth with social disabilities > Education (Higher)
Behinderung
Bildung
Jugend
Wirtschaftliche Lage
United States
USA
"Multi-User"
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Passing the torch: an overview
  • Thirty years later: educational attainments
  • How families fared: the college payoff
  • Breaking the cycle of disadvantage: maternal education and children's success
  • How college changes a mother's parenting and affects her children's educational outcomes
  • Dads and neighborhoods: their contributions to children's success
  • Mass higher education and its critics
  • The bottom line: the difference that open access makes.

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