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Download full textLechuga, Vicente M. – 2000
This paper provides a basic understanding of the Pell Grant program and summarizes the evidence regarding its effectiveness. The Basic Educational Opportunities Program, known as the Pell Grant program, began in 1973 as a means of providing disadvantaged students access to a postsecondary education. The Pell Grant program has tried to keep up with…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Futures (of Society), Grants
