Overcoming the odds : the benefits of completing college for unlikely graduates /

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"Debates about college access often do not carefully consider what is required to speak knowledgeably about the benefits of college degrees. First, we want to know what an individual's life would look like without a college education. Second, we need to consider unequal access to higher ed...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brand, Jennie E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2023]
Series:Rose series in sociology.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Social aspects.
College choice > Economic aspects.
Universities and colleges > Admission.
Youth with social disabilities > Education (Higher)
Educational equalization.
EDUCATION / General
College access
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Expanding access to higher education
  • Diverse benefits for diverse graduates
  • College counterfactuals and estimating effects
  • Unequal college chances
  • Cultivating privilege and circumventing precarity
  • Forming families and preventing poverty
  • Reducing social assistance
  • Engaging in civic society
  • Inequality and investment.

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