| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 161 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-151) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Higher education and the reproduction of social inequality -- The promise of higher education and the reality of student debt -- Educational attainment: The effects of public policy and student borrowing -- The educational debt burden among college-educated workers -- Educational debt and economic class reproduction -- Renewing the promise: Innovative policies to improve higher education opportunity -- Appendix A-E -- Index. |
| Summary |
"Drawing on a national study of student borrowing patterns, Derek Price finds that racial and ethnic minorities and low-income students are not only more likely to borrow than their white and upper-income peers, they also are less likely to graduate from high-status institutions and go on to graduate school. |
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In addition, current loan programs can burden student borrowers in that their career opportunities are restricted, in effect perpetuating the very patterns of inequality that the programs were intended a alleviate. While the graduates' prospects clearly are higher than they would have been without higher education, the structural pattern of inequality continues to reflect race, ethnic, gender, and class characteristics." |
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"Price concludes with provocative proposals for aid policies that would expand the range of college and career choices for students - policies that would in fact support the role of higher education as a vehicle for individual opportunity and social change."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Student loans -- United States.
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Student loans. |
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United States. |
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Discrimination in higher education -- United States.
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Discrimination in higher education. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Price, Derek V. Borrowing inequality. Boulder, Colo. : L. Rienner Publishers, 2004 1588262162 (DLC) 2003058571 (OCoLC)52838849 |
| ISBN |
9781588269218 (electronic book) |
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1588269213 (electronic book) |
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1588262162 |
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9781588262165 |
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