Minding the Gap
Hoffman, Nancy / Vargas, Joel / Venezia, Andrea / Miller, Marc S.
Argues that in today's highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the US currently earns a postsecondary credential. This instructive book explores policies and practices that would quickly enable a larger number of low-income and first-generation college students to earn postsecondary degrees.