Minding the Gap: Why Integrating High School with College Makes Sense and How to Do It

Book Overview

"Minding the Gap" argues that in today s highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and practices that would quickly enable a larger number of low-income and first-generation college students to earn postsecondary degrees. In doing so, "Minding the Gap" calls for a system that thoroughly integrates secondary and postsecondary education a system in which a college degree is the goal for all students."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891792458
• ISBN13: 9781891792458
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Harvard Education PR
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.