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Expanding College Opportunities for High-Achieving, Low Income Students
By Caroline Hoxby, Sarah Turner
Only a minority of high-achieving, low-income students apply to colleges in the same way that other high-achieving students do: applying to several selective colleges whose curriculum is designed for students with a level of achievement like their own. This is despite the fact that selective colleges typically cost the high-achieving, low-income students less while offering them more generous resources than the non-selective postsecondary institutions they mainly attend.
Download the full paper: siepr.stanford.edu
Posted in Enrollment
Tagged low-income students, SIEPR
Poor Scholars Hit by Money Squeeze From Wealthy Colleges
By Janet Lorin
To require students to net several thousand dollars in a summer job adds to their financial strain, said Harley Frankel, executive director of College Match, a nonprofit group in Los Angeles that helps low-income students get into top colleges.
“A lot of times, low-income kids can’t get summer jobs, especially in this economy,” which forces them to borrow, said Frankel, who had run the national Head Start program. The savings requirement also prevents most students from taking unpaid summer internships, which puts them at a disadvantage later in the job market, he said…
“Universities profit from… Continue reading
Posted in Educational Financing
Tagged College Match, low-income students, unpaid summer internships, Wealthy Colleges
CLASP RADD Chart: Financial Pressures Drive Down College Completion
Confronted with high costs and unmet financial need, low- and modest-income students and their families face a difficult choice: work more while in college, borrow more, or do both. When students cannot afford college, it not only limits access to higher education and drives up debt, it also increases (sometimes significantly) the time it takes to earn a degree and/or ultimately complete a credential.
Read more: clasp.org
Posted in Educational Financing
Tagged College Completion, low-income students, student debt
Pell Grants boost college access for low-income students but money is only half the story
Dr. Arnold Mitchem
President
Council for Opportunity in Education
It’s ironic that just as the U.S. poverty rate rises to its highest level in more than four decades, the Pell Grant program—the most important source of federal aid for low-income students aspiring to a college education—celebrates its 40th anniversary.
To be sure, there is good reason to celebrate the Pell Grant’s huge impact on expanding college access. Named after the late U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI), the program’s need-based assistance has made it possible for 60 million students to pursue their dream of higher education, young people… Continue reading
Posted in Persistence and Graduation
Tagged Arnold Mitchem, college access, low-income students, Pell Grant
Has Higher Education Become an Engine of Inequality?
Inequality is growing in the United States, and social mobility is slowing. A study by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that 62 percent of Americans raised in the top one-fifth of the income scale stay in the top two-fifths; 65 percent born in the bottom fifth stay in the bottom two-fifths.
Education, long praised as the great equalizer, no longer seems to be performing as advertised. A study by Stanford University shows that the gap in standardized-test scores between low-income and high-income students has widened about 40 percent since the 1960s—now double that between black and white students. A… Continue reading
