Minding the Gap
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first-generation college students
higher education
low-income college students
postsecondary education
secondary education
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- ISBN 9781891792458
- Weight: 580g
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2007
- Publisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Minding the Gap 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 United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and practices that would quickly enable a larger number of low-income and first-generation college students to earn postsecondary degrees. In doing so, Minding the Gap calls for a system that thoroughly integrates secondary and postsecondary education—a system in which a college degree is the goal for all students.
Nancy Hoffman is vice president and senior advisor at JFF.Joel Vargas works with the Early College High School Initiative at Jobs for the Future.Andrea Venezia is senior policy associate with WestEd.Marc S. Miller
