|
|
Increasing Access to College: Extending Possibilities for All Studentsreviewed by Dennis Redovich - 2003 Title: Increasing Access to College: Extending Possibilities for All Students Author(s): William G. Tierney and Linda Serra Sagedorn (Editors) Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany ISBN: 0791453642, Pages: 250, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com This book consists of an Introduction by the editors, William G.
Tierney and Linda Hagedorn, and ten chapters written by eighteen
authors including the editors. The book is divided into Part
I “The Landscape of College Access” (3 Chapters), Part
II “The Real World of College Preparation Programs” (4
Chapters), and Part III “Suggestions and Policy for the
Future” (3 Chapters).
The Introduction attempts to justify and stress the
importance of pre-college preparation programs and
“articulation” programs that exist for the purpose of
smoothing the transition for students moving from high school to
college and universities, to community colleges, and to vocational
and technical programs. The editors state that, “A college
degree can longer be considered a luxury, but rather a necessary
passport to the middle class” (p. 3). This is
a misleading account of class mobility; an account that is
typical of many academics who seem disconnected from the real
world. While the transition to vocational and technical programs is
casually mentioned, all ten authors of this edited volume emphasize
four-year degrees... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
|
|
|
|
|
|