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Lynch, Mamie; Engle, Jennifer – Education Trust, 2010
The United States' lack of purposefulness in providing high-quality education to all young Americans, regardless of the circumstances of their birth, is literally wasting the future of many young people, including members of the fastest growing group. Poised by 2050 to constitute nearly one-third of the workforce, Latinos currently are the least…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Human Capital, Young Adults
Lynch, Mamie; Engle, Jennifer; Cruz, Jose L. – Education Trust, 2010
As with the collapse of the subprime lending industry, the showdown between for-profit colleges and the government shows how the aspirations of the underserved, when combined with lax regulation, make the rich, richer and the poor, poorer. For-profit colleges provide high-cost degree programs that have little chance of leading to high-paying…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Educational Finance, Student Educational Objectives, Access to Education