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Table of Contents About the Authors....................................................................................................................v Introduction..............................................................................................................................1 Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Ross Rubenstein PART I: The Role of External Factors in Shaping Inequality Economic Inequality in College Access, Matriculation, and Graduation.........................20 Robert Haveman and Kathryn Wilson Overcoming Educational Inequality: Improving Secondary Education Linkages with Broad Access Postsecondary Education......60 Michael Kirst PART II: The Role of Institutions in Reducing Inequality Institutional Responses to Reduce Inequalities in College Outcomes: Remedial and Developmental Courses in Higher Education...................................................94 Eric P. Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long Higher Education and Inequality: The Increasingly Important Role Community Colleges Play in Higher Education................134 Dan Goldhaber and Gretchen Kiefer Access to Elites: The Growth of Programs to Increase Opportunities for Low-Income Students at Selective Universities..............................................................................................................174 Amanda Pallais and Sarah E. Turner The Cost of College and Implications for Income Inequality............................................215 Amy Ellen Schwartz PART III: Looking to the Future Reducing Inequality in Higher Education: Where Do We Go From Here?.............................................................................................. .255 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
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Education -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Education, Higher -- United States.
Income distribution -- United States.