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Caroline Hoxby, Ph.D. & Christopher Avery, Ph.D.
Stanford University Harvard University
The Missing "One-Offs": The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low Income Students
A study of every student in the high school graduating class of 2008 who scored at the 90th percentile or above on the SAT or ACT and whose high school GPA was A- or above. They show that despite the fact that these high-achievers are well qualified for admission at America's most selective colleges, the vast majority of low-income high achievers do not apply to any selective school.
Lumina Foundation
A Stronger Nation Through Higher Education
“Stronger Nation” offers detailed data arrays that describe degree attainment at the national, state and county levels. The report also provides degree-attainment data for each of the nation’s 100 most populous metropolitan regions.
Anthony Carnevale, Ph.D.
Georgetown University, Center for Education and the Workforce
Separate and Unequal
July 31, 2013
The higher education system is more and more complicit as a passive agent in the systematic reproduction of white racial privilege across generations. This report analyzes enrollment trends at 4,400 postsecondary institutions by race in the past 15 years
A Decade Behind
July 31, 2012
Projections of Education and Employment in 17 southern states through 2020
Isabel V. Sawhill, Ph.D.
Brookings Institute
Higher Education and the Opportunity Gap
America faces an opportunity gap. Those born in the bottom ranks have difficulty moving up. Although the United States has long thought of itself as a meritocracy, a place where anyone who gets an education and works hard can make it, the facts tell a somewhat different story. Children born into the top fifth of the income distribution have about twice as much of a chance of becoming middle class or better in their adult years as those born into the bottom fifth (Isaacs, Sawhill, & Haskins, 2008). One way that lower-income children can beat the odds is by getting a college degree.[1]Those who complete four-year degrees have a much better chance of becoming middle class than those who don’t — although still not as good of a chance as their more affluent peers. But the even bigger problem is that few actually manage to get the degree.
Stanford University Harvard University
The Missing "One-Offs": The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low Income Students
A study of every student in the high school graduating class of 2008 who scored at the 90th percentile or above on the SAT or ACT and whose high school GPA was A- or above. They show that despite the fact that these high-achievers are well qualified for admission at America's most selective colleges, the vast majority of low-income high achievers do not apply to any selective school.
Lumina Foundation
A Stronger Nation Through Higher Education
“Stronger Nation” offers detailed data arrays that describe degree attainment at the national, state and county levels. The report also provides degree-attainment data for each of the nation’s 100 most populous metropolitan regions.
Anthony Carnevale, Ph.D.
Georgetown University, Center for Education and the Workforce
Separate and Unequal
July 31, 2013
The higher education system is more and more complicit as a passive agent in the systematic reproduction of white racial privilege across generations. This report analyzes enrollment trends at 4,400 postsecondary institutions by race in the past 15 years
A Decade Behind
July 31, 2012
Projections of Education and Employment in 17 southern states through 2020
Isabel V. Sawhill, Ph.D.
Brookings Institute
Higher Education and the Opportunity Gap
America faces an opportunity gap. Those born in the bottom ranks have difficulty moving up. Although the United States has long thought of itself as a meritocracy, a place where anyone who gets an education and works hard can make it, the facts tell a somewhat different story. Children born into the top fifth of the income distribution have about twice as much of a chance of becoming middle class or better in their adult years as those born into the bottom fifth (Isaacs, Sawhill, & Haskins, 2008). One way that lower-income children can beat the odds is by getting a college degree.[1]Those who complete four-year degrees have a much better chance of becoming middle class than those who don’t — although still not as good of a chance as their more affluent peers. But the even bigger problem is that few actually manage to get the degree.
