Promise Abandoned: How Policy Choices and Institutional Practices Restrict College Opportunities

Contributing Organization(s): Education Trust


Author(s)/Creator(s): Kati Haycock

Publishing Date: 2006-08-01

Issue Areas: Education and Literacy; Race and Ethnicity

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Promise Abandoned sharply criticizes trends in federal, state, and college practices that discourage low-income and minority students from enrolling and graduating from college. In fact, despite the perception of progress, gaps in college-going and college completion for poor and minority students are actually wider than they were thirty years ago.

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