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Peer reviewedHearn, James C. – Sociology of Education, 1991
Focuses on relationships between high school graduates' personal characteristics and the nature of the postsecondary institutions they attend. Suggests that within the matching process is a sorting mechanism that reinforces nonmeritocratic tendencies. Analyzes national data for the high school class of 1980. Finds, that socioeconomic background…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, College Admission, College Choice
Download full textACT, Inc., 2005
This report uses the phrase, "College Readiness" to refer in a general sense to the level of preparation a student needs to be ready to enroll and succeed--without remediation--in a credit-bearing course at a two-year or four-year institution, trade school, or technical school. Increasingly, however, college readiness also means "workplace"…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Education Work Relationship, Job Training, Core Curriculum
