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| Balrog0 05/17/17 5:14:21 PM #17: | Zanzenburger posted... They call higher education "the great equalizer" in administrative circles because it gives everyone, from the poor to the rich, a fresh start. meanwhile... http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/06/02/college_graduation_rates_for_low_income_students_why_poor_kids_drop_out.html At every level of academic ability, the low-income students were less likely to finish college than their wealthier peers. Yet more depressing: Exceptionally smart poor kids, whose math scores ranked them among the top quarter of the study's participants, were no more likely to attain a bachelor's degree than scholastically middling rich kids. --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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