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  title info:
    title: From high school to college
    sub title: gender, immigrant generation, and race-ethnicity
  name:
    name part: Hirschman, Charles
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  abstract: "Today, over 75 percent of high school seniors aspire to graduate from college. However, only one-third of Americans hold a bachelor's degree, and college graduation rates vary significantly by race/ethnicity and parental socioeconomic status. If most young adults aspire to obtain a college degree, why are these disparities so great? In From High School to College, Charles Hirschman analyzes the period between leaving high school and completing college for nearly 10,000 public and private school students across the Pacific Northwest. Hirschman finds that although there are few gender, racial, or immigration-related disparities in students' aspirations to attend and complete college, certain groups succeed at the highest rates. For example, he finds that women achieve better high school grades and report receiving more support and encouragement from family, peers, and educators. They tend to outperform men in terms of preparing for college, enrolling in college within a year of finishing high school, and completing a degree. Similarly, second-generation immigrants are better prepared for college than first-generation immigrants, in part because they do not have to face language barriers or learn how to navigate the American educational system. Hirschman also documents that racial disparities in college graduation rates remain stark. In his sample, 35 percent of white students graduated from college within seven years of completing high school, compared to only 19 percent of black students and 18 percent of Hispanic students. Students' socioeconomic origins--including parental education and employment, home ownership, and family structure--account for most of the college graduation gap between disadvantaged minorities and white students. Further, while a few Asian ethnic groups have achieved college completion rates on par with whites, such as Chinese and Koreans, others, whose socioeconomic origins more resemble those of black and Hispanic students, such as Filipinos…
  table of contents: The role of education in American society: expanding opportunity and persistent inequality -- Recent trends in college graduation: the national portrait -- The University of Washington -- beyond high school project: data and description -- The college pathways model -- Social origins and college-pathway transitions -- A closer look at the role of culture in explaining educational transitions -- Work and extracurricular activities in the lives of high school seniors -- The impact of schools and the promise of scholarships on college-pathway transitions -- Summing up: pathways to college graduation.
  note: Charles Hirschman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (page 341-370) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Educational equalization
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: College preparation programs
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION / Secondary
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
  subject:
    topic: College preparation programs
  subject:
    topic: Educational equalization
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: LC213.2 .H57 2016
  classification: 379.2/6
  classification: EDU025000 SOC008000 SOC007000
  identifier: 9780871544186 (paperback)
  identifier: 0871544180 (paperback)
  identifier: 9781610448574 (ebook)
  identifier: 161044857X (ebook)
  identifier: 2016006327
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160414
    record change date: 20170208091112.0
    record identifier: in00003711210
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng