For decades, policymakers claimed to expand college access. In reality, they rerouted poor students into the least valuable ...

Colleges are increasingly spending more to woo affluent students with scholarships based solely on academic or other achievements, experts say. Students in the highest 25% income range received a ...

While I do not for one second believe we are done addressing the racial achievement gap, a new report linked and discussed in this recent New York Times article suggests that we clearly have a serious ...

Rich Students And Poor Students: Everyone Is Taking Out Student Loans To Pay For College. Twitter; Facebook; LinkedIn; Email; Print; The above excerpt was originally published in Generation Progress.

Poor students like those in Cleveland fit a national trend by being two years of learning behind others nationwide and four years behind rich districts, Stanford researchers found. See how every ...

At the most selective public schools, poor students receive roughly $2,300 more in subsidies than rich students—or 25 percent more. The gap is wider at slightly less-selective public colleges.

The education gap between rich and poor continues to grow, ... For example, the percentage of students from families in the bottom quartile, earning no more than $34,160 a year, ...

It may not simply be a matter of the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer -- although that certainly is a part of it. The growing differences in student achievement don't strictly ...

COMMENTARY As the Occupy protest movement highlighted, the gulf between the rich and poor in this country is enormous and continuing to grow. You can find the same phenomenon happening on college ...

The Rich-Poor Gap Widens for Colleges and Students By Jeffrey Brainard and Jeffrey J. Selingo April 7, 2006 As in the country as a whole, class distinctions have always existed in higher education.

May 9, 2013 -- A new analysis of colleges' financial aid policies indicts American higher education not just for having turned its back on poor students, but for robbing them in order to woo rich ...

Colleges spend more on rich students, less on poor. By Lynn O'Shaughnessy. September 17, 2013 / 8:31 AM EDT / MoneyWatch (MoneyWatch) A common ...