Blog #3

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Research Question: In the past few decades college admissions and graduation rates have lessened dramatically among lower-income students. Overall (U.S.) education spending has been cut off quite severely in the last few years. Is the government itself is responsible for generating achievement gaps? This topic is up for debate but why there isn’t a solution to this issue? will low-income students and their families remain in the low-income bracket?

Resources :

Michael Mitchell, et al. “State Higher Education Funding Cuts Have Pushed Costs to Students, Worsened Inequality.” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 24 Oct. 2019, www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/state-higher-education-funding-cuts-have-pushed-costs-to-students. 


Carmel Martin, Ulrich Boser. “A Quality Approach to School Funding.” Center for American Progress, www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2018/11/13/460397/quality-approach-school-funding/. 

Dan, Is there a relationship between two-year college course offerings and student degree outcomes in using their education to obtain and / or advance employment in the geo, et al. “Where Have All the Low-Income Students Gone?” Higher Education Today, 11 Jan. 2017, www.higheredtoday.org/2015/11/25/where-have-all-the-low-income-students-gone/. 

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