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[Stephen E Philion]

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
>