Improving College Prep. for Low-Income Students
Source: brookings.edu Posted By: Ronny F...4013 days ago
In “Time for Change: A New Federal Strategy to Prepare Disadvantaged Students for College” Brookings Senior Fellow Ron Haskins and Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School Cecilia Rouse review evaluations of the four main federal programs designed to increase the number of disadvantaged students who graduate from college and decrease economic inequality. They find that the U.S. Department of Education’s TRIO programs (Upward Bound, Talent Search, Upward Bound Math-Science, Student Support Services....