| $19.95 |
| 231 Pages |
| ISBN: 978-0870785160 |
By Richard D. Kahlenberg, editor
Published by The Century Foundation Press, June 3, 2010
Today, higher education is a major force in promoting social mobility, yet colleges and universities seem more concerned with prestige than finding ways to make higher learning more accessible. Rewarding Strivers outlines two high-profile models that colleges and universities can follow in making the American Dream a realistic one for all students.
Former New York Times education writer Edward B. Fiske (author of The Fiske Guide to Colleges) explores an exciting new effort to provide extra financial aid and academic support to low-income students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He finds that the "Carolina Covenant" has much to teach public and private universities across the country.
In order to benefit from financial aid and support, low-income students first must be admitted to college. In a chapter that is likely to prove highly controversial, Georgetown University's Anthony Carnevale and Jeff Strohl articulate a coherent and concrete way for colleges and universities to provide a leg up to economically disadvantaged students in selective college admissions. The authors make an important contribution to the nation's raging debate over affirmative action by calling on universities to expand preferences beyond race to also include socioeconomic status, and outlining how such a program could work in practice.
Rewarding Strivers presents provocative research and analysis that provides a blueprint for the way forward.
– William R. Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions, Harvard University
The terrible "secret" of higher education in America is that too few students from poorer families have access to it. . . . Kahlenberg again gathers the best thinkers on how to challenge this status quo.
– Anthony Marx, President, Amherst College
By The Century Foundation Task Force on Preventing Community Colleges from Becoming Separate and Unequal
May 23, 2013
Two-year colleges have opened the doors of higher education for low-income and working-class students as never before, and yet, community colleges often lack the resources to provide the conditions for student success. [...]
By Greg Anrig
Published by The Century Foundation Press, April 4, 2013
While the “education wars” dominate media coverage of school reform debates, largely unnoticed research is mounting that student outcomes are strongest in districts pursuing intensive collaboration among teachers and administrators [...]
By Alan S. Blinder, Andrew W. Lo, Robert M. Solow, editors
Published by Russell Sage Foundation, December 19, 2012
In its wide-ranging inquiry into the financial crash, Rethinking the Financial Crisis marshals an impressive collection of rigorous and yet empirically-relevant research that, in some respects, upsets the conventional wisdom about the [...]
By Richard D. Kahlenberg, Halley Potter
Published by The Century Foundation, October 3, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court case Fisher v. Texas could dramatically alter or eliminate race-based admissions policies at colleges and universities. In a new report, A Better Affirmative Action, Senior Fellow Richard [...]
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Mark Thoma is a professor of economics at the University of Oregon. His research involves the effects of monetary policy on inflation, output, unemployment, interest rates, and other macroeconomic variables.
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