Potholes on the Road to College

By Melissa Roderick, V. Coca, J. Nagaoka. 2011

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Closing the Gap: The Effect of a Targeted, Tuition-Free Promise on College Choices of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students (2018, background): “Only 38 percent of Chicago Public Schools students who qualify for very selective colleges attend them (Roderick et al. 2011).”
Unfulfilled Potential: High-Achieving Minority Students and the High School Achievement Gap in Math (2017, background): “…Asians, and Latinos to aspire to a 4-year college when controlling for prior achievement and socio-economic status (Flowers, Milner, & Moore, 2003; Roderick et al, 2011; Rumberger, 1983), but these aspirations do not always manifest into higher achievement due to what Bronfenbrenner terms the…”