The Summer Flood: The Invisible Gap Among Low-Income Students
by Karen Arnold, Shezwae Fleming, Mario DeAnda, Ben Castleman, and K. Lynk Wartman
Published in the National Education Association Higher Education Journal
Thought & Action 2009
The pipeline into higher education does not come to an end when a high school senior accepts an offer to attend college. Notwithstanding high school bragging lists and college-choice theory, for a large group of high school graduates, admission to college is not equivalent to going to college. For low-income students who have made it through the entire admission and financial aid process, the education pipeline springs a leak at the very last moment: during the summer after high school graduation.
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