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The Arcane Rules That Keep Low-Income Kids Out of College
- tokenadult 14y agoThis is a very little known aspect of college accessibility in the United States. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which uses its resources to provide scholarships for some high-ability young people from low-income families, has studied the issue and discovered that high-achieving high school students from lower-income families are somewhat less likely to attend college, substantially less likely to attend selective colleges, and much less likely to graduate from college than students of similar ability from higher-income families. Family resources matter a lot for boosting students into higher education and sustaining them there. This issue has also been studied by the National Association for Gifted Children. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/2012/10/report_low_income_high_ability_students_nee.html http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/2012/10/report_low_inc... The association's report Unlocking Emergent Talent: Supporting High Achievement of Low-Income, High-Ability Students http://www.nagc.org/uploadedFiles/Conventions_and_Seminars/National_Research_Summit/Unlocking%20Emergent%20Talent%20FULL%20No-Tint.pdf http://www.nagc.org/uploadedFiles/Conventions_and_Seminars/N... provides more details on the economic barriers to higher education faced by able students from lower-income families.
- duggieawesome 14y agoThe second link is extremely insightful as it attempts to address all fronts of the current socioeconomic of today's students. Thank you!