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GEAR UP: Providing Opportunities or Conflict?
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Walsh, Rachael – Online Submission, 2008
Since 1965 the federal government has attempted to provide low socioeconomic status students with equal access to postsecondary education through the Higher Education Act and its multiplicative programmatic efforts. Implemented as one such program in 1998, the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, or GEAR UP, has been…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Program Effectiveness, Educational Policy, Disadvantaged