The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities
by
Douglas S. Massey, Camille Z. Charles, Garvey Lundy
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
African Americans and Latinos earn lower grades and drop out of college more often than whites or Asians. Yet thirty years after deliberate minority recruitment efforts began, we still don't know why. In The Shape of the River, William Bowen and Derek Bok documented the benefits of affirmative action...