The Working Classes And Higher Education: Inequality Of Access, Opportunity And Outcome (Routledge Research In Higher Education)

Though traditional working-class jobs now demand higher levels of education, educational policies make it increasingly difficult for working-class students to afford tuition at four-year colleges and universities, placing them in low-ranking institutions with plummeting retention and completion rates. Through a sociological framework, this volume challenges the popular notion of higher education access as a means to social mobility and equal opportunity for working-class students. It highlights the successes of working-class students within the constraints and obstacles presented by the current structure of the higher education system.

• | Author: Amy E. Stich, Carrie Freie
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Dec 21, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138904996
• | ISBN-13: 9781138904996