Can College Level the Playing Field? (eBook)

Higher Education in an Unequal Society

Sandy Baum, Michael McPherson (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21093-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Why higher education is not a silver bullet for eradicating economic inequality and social injusticeWe often think that a college degree will open doors to opportunity regardless of one's background or upbringing. In this eye-opening book, two of today's leading economists argue that higher education alone cannot overcome the lasting effects of inequality that continue to plague us, and offer sensible solutions for building a more just and equitable society.Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson document the starkly different educational and social environments in which children of different races and economic backgrounds grow up, and explain why social equity requires sustained efforts to provide the broadest possible access to high-quality early childhood and K-12 education. They dismiss panaceas like eliminating college tuition and replacing the classroom experience with online education, revealing why they fail to provide better education for those who need it most, and discuss how wages in our dysfunctional labor market are sharply skewed toward the highly educated. Baum and McPherson argue that greater investment in the postsecondary institutions that educate most low-income and marginalized students will have a bigger impact than just getting more students from these backgrounds into the most prestigious colleges and universities.While the need for reform extends far beyond our colleges and universities, there is much that both academic and government leaders can do to mitigate the worst consequences of America's deeply seated inequalities. This book shows how we can address the root causes of social injustice and level the playing field for students and families before, during, and after college.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.5.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b/w illus. 21 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Ability to pay • Academic achievement • academic degree • Academic Institution • Advanced Placement • after-tax income • Aggregate income • alumnus • Associate Degree • Bachelor's degree • Bachelor's degree or higher • Business Development • Census Tract • Child Tax Credit • City University of New York • College • college application • community college • credential • Curriculum • developed country • Dual enrollment • Economic Inequality • Economic mobility • Economic planning • Education • Educational attainment • Educational technology • Education in the United States • Equal Opportunity • Expense account • family income • Finance • First-Time Home Buyer • Funding • Further Education • Future Generation • Gainful Employment • Georgia Institute of Technology • Grading (education) • Graduation • graduation rate • higher education • Household • Housing • Housing authority • Human Capital • Incentive • income • income distribution • Income in the United States • Innovation • Institution • Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System • Investor • Labour Economics • Longitudinal study • marital status • Market power • Median income • National debt of the United States • Networking • Occupational prestige • of education • Ownership (psychology) • Participation (decision making) • Payroll • personal finance • philanthropy • Positivism • Poverty • Private School • Public university • Race and ethnicity in the United States Census • Real estate appraisal • school • secondary education • Secondary School • standard of living • Stanford University • strategist • Student • student athlete • Student benefits • Student Debt • Student Grant • student loan • Study Abroad • study group • Subsidy • supply-side economics • Tax • Technology • The Chronicle of Higher Education • Tuition payments • undergraduate education • United States Census Bureau • University • University and college admission • Wealth
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21093-4 / 0691210934
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21093-3 / 9780691210933