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Tag Archives: Educational Opportunity
At Risk Kids and the College Game
Summary: Low income kids often are first in their family to contemplate college, and so lack the fund of family college information taken for granted by middle and upper class students. Their back up option, the guidance of their high … Continue reading
Schools, Culture, and Politics: David Brooks’ “The Widening Opportunity Gap”, and Washington State’s College Bound Scholar Program.
Summary: Can incentive scholarship programs such as Washington State’s College Bound Scholar impact the growing economic gap between low and upper income groups, and reestablish mobility into the middle class? How refreshing it is to find a conservative who laments … Continue reading