Passing the Torch
Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations?
The UFS Fall Conference at The Hunter School of Social Work
Friday, December 7, 2007, 9:30 a.m.
The
authors of Passing the Torch write, "The book focuses on a cohort of
women who entered CUNY between 1970 and 1972, when the university began
accepting all graduates of New York City high schools and
increasing its representation of poor and minority students. The
authors survey these women in order to identify how the opportunity to
pursue higher education affected not only their long-term
educational attainments and family well-being, but also how it affected
their children’s educational achievements...
The evidence marshaled in this
important book reaffirms the American ideal of upward mobility
through education. As the first study to indicate that increasing
access to college among today’s disadvantaged students can
reduce educational gaps in the next generation. Passing the Torch
makes a powerful argument in favor of college for all."
