Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985
by
Steven Brint, Jerome Karabel
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1989
In the twentieth century, Americans have increasingly looked to the schools--and, in particular, to the nation's colleges and universities--as guardians of the cherished national ideal of equality of opportunity. With the best jobs increasingly monopolized by those with higher education, the opportunity...