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Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Wed Jul 26 16:48:42 PDT 2000


doug, how much of those gains are offset by the decrease in value of a college degree in the past few decades?

steve

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >And for what it's worth, educational access has probably improved a
> >great deal for women of all classes & the working class of both
> >sexes and all races since the mid-20th century.
>
> No "probably" about it - it has improved a great deal, especially on
> gender and race. The black/white education gap has narrowed very
> substantially, and there are now more women than men in college.
> Class - using income as the imperfect proxy - is another story;
> according to Tom Mortenson, who publishes the Iowa-based Post
> Secondary Education Access, there's been little narrowing of the gap
> between the likelihoods of kids from the top and bottom income
> quartiles going to college since 1970. In 1970, 28.2% of 18-24 year
> olds from the bottom income quartile were in college, vs. 73.5% of
> those from the top; in 1997, the numbers were 33.6% and 82.7%.
>
> Doug
>



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