Despite all the money and effort devoted to developing the Common Core State Standards — not to mention the simmering controversy over their adoption in s
We describe changes over time in inequality in postsecondary education using nearly seventy years
of data from the U.S. Census and the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth.
WASHINGTON — Education was historically considered a great equalizer in American society, capable of lifting less advantaged children and improving their chances for success as adults.
In this chapter I examine whether and how the relationship between family socioeconomic characteristics and academic achievement has changed during the last fifty years.
