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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462770903321

Autore

Price Derek V.

Titolo

Borrowing inequality : race, class, and student loans / / Derek V. Price

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-58826-921-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Disciplina

378.3/62

Soggetti

Student loans - United States

Discrimination in higher education - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The Book Chapters at a Glance""; ""1-Higher Education and the Reproduction of Social Inequality""; ""The Dual Purposes of Higher Education""; ""Theoretical Framework""; ""Financial Aid and Postsecondary Opportunities""; ""Reproducing Inequality Through Higher Education""; ""Educational Opportunities and the Impact of Student Loans""; ""2-The Promise of Higher Education and the Reality of Student Debt""; ""The Imbalance Between Individual and Collective Interests""

""A Brief History of Financial Aid Policy""""Higher Education: Attainment, Enrollment, and Cost""; ""Public Policy Shapes Individual Choices""; ""Notes""; ""3-Educational Attainment: The Effects of Public Policy and Student Borrowing""; ""Factors That Influence Educational Attainment""; ""Graduate Educational Attainment, College Choices, and Student Debt""; ""Labor Market Returns: Payoffs to the College Degree""; ""Salary Differences in 1997""; ""The Emergent Process of Social Reproduction""; ""Notes""; ""4-The Educational Debt Burden Among College-Educated Workers""

""What Is Educational Debt Burden?""""Predicting 1997 Educational Debt Burden""; ""Educational Debt Burden and Social Inequality""; ""Notes""; ""5-Educational Debt and Economic Class Reproduction""; ""Measuring



Economic Class Using a Poverty Index""; ""Household Income in 1997""; ""Reproducing Economic ClassInequality Among College Graduates""; ""Conclusion: Economic Class Inequality Among College Graduates""; ""Notes""; ""6-Renewing the Promise: Innovative Policies to Improve Higher Education Opportunity""; ""Renewing the Promise of Higher Education""

""An Integrated Vision for Higher Education Policy""""Conclusion: Designing Public Policy to Increase the Social Value of Higher Education""; ""Notes""; ""Appendices""; ""A: Family Income Ranges Corresponding with Economic Class Variable, 1991""; ""B: Logistic Estimates on Earning a Graduate or Professional Degree Within Four Years of Receiving a Bachelor�s Degree""; ""C: Linear Regression Estimates on Total Educational Debt in 1997 Among 1992�1993 College Graduates with an Advanced Degree in 1997""

""D: Multinomial Estimates of Educational Debt Burden in 1997 Comparison Group: Debt Burden Declined to Zero Between 1994 and 1997""""E: Multiple Regression Estimates on 1997 Poverty Index Among 1992�1993 College Graduates""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""About the Book""