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CHANGING THE ODDS: OPEN ADMISSIONS AND THE LIFE CHANCES OF By David E. Lavin
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- ISBN-10
- 0300063288
- Book Title
- Changing the Odds: Open Admissions and the Life Chances of the
- Genre
- Education
- ISBN
- 9780300063288
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300063288
ISBN-13
9780300063288
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99333
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Changing the Odds : Open Admissions and the Life Chances of the Disadvantaged
Publication Year
1996
Subject
Higher
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
95-031948
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
370.1/934/09747
Synopsis
The open-admissions experiment at the City University of New York was the most ambitious effort ever made to promote equality of opportunity in American higher education. Initiated in 1970, during the heyday of the "great society," it defined college as a right for all who had completed high school, and it especially aimed to create educational opportunities for disadvantaged minority students. This book evaluates that controversial experiment. Although critics predicted that the open-admissions policy would sweep away academic standards and result in watered-down degrees of little value, David Lavin and David Hyllegard present data to show that students who graduated were able not only to earn postgraduate degrees at non-CUNY institutions but also to obtain good jobs--far better than the jobs they could have expected without the opportunity open admissions gave them. Indeed, in one year in the 1980s, say the authors, open-admissions students earned $67 million more than they would have if they had not gone to college. Notwithstanding the successes of open admissions, attacks on it have continued, and, as the book shows, minority access to college has been cut back significantly at CUNY and elsewhere. This book provides ammunition for those who want to challenge emerging policies that narrow educational opportunities for minority students and poor people.
LC Classification Number
LD3835.L375 1996
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