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Download full textStrick, Betsy R. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
Since the release of the Coleman Report in 1966, studies (such as Sirin, 2005; Radford, Berkner, Wheeless, & Shepherd, 2010) have continued to find an association between socioeconomic status and educational attainment. Wyner, Bridgeland, and Diiulio (2007) observe that a progressively lower proportion of low-income, high achieving students…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Socioeconomic Status, Charter Schools, Secondary Schools
Direct linkOldfield, Kenneth – About Campus, 2007
For first-generation poor and working-class college students, surviving the social challenges of higher learning can be at least as demanding as achieving a high grade point average. To increase the odds that first-generation students with low-socioeconomic status backgrounds will persist and prosper in college, it is vital that their chosen…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Working Class, Academic Persistence, Foreign Culture
