Lessons of a Generation: Education and Work in the Lives of the High School Class of 1972

by Clifford Adelman

In Lessons of a Generation, Clifford Adelman offers a fascinating look at the career and educational choices of the high school class of 1972 with special emphasis on how postsecondary education made a difference in their lives. Drawing on the largest and richest data archive ever assembled on a generation of Americans, Adelman follows 22,000 members of the senior class of 1972 over a fifteen-year period--in and out of school, college, work, family,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555426360
• ISBN13: 9781555426361
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"