High-income families have access to high quality college preparation while low income families do not.
She devotes her teaching, research, presentations, evaluations, and community service to helping all students receive a high quality, college ready education.
I am confident that we: are a high quality college; help students succeed; work with employers to meet their needs; are effective and efficient; and, work to improve every day.
The mismatch hypothesis asserts that, under affirmative action, minority students are more likely to be matched to higher quality colleges for which they are less well-prepared than their non-minority counterparts.
At the same time, the way Panel (a) is drawn, the higher quality campus, A, has a comparative advantage at producing higher graduation rates among better prepared students than Campus B. This latter assumption provides a motivation for why better prepared students tend to attend higher quality colleges.
Nonetheless, it is plausible that the lack of effects on college selectivity that we find may hold in higher-income districts as well since students in these districts who are at the margin for being in the top decile of their class likely face smaller informational and financial barriers to enrolling in high-quality colleges than do students in our sample.
The skills gap reflects the narrow availability of high-quality college education in India and the galloping pace of the country's service-driven economy, which is growing faster than nearly all but China's.
Mr. Reif has been one of the key forces behind the creation of MITx, the university's initiative for offering free high-quality college courses online, which earlier this month morphed into edX, an online collaboration with Harvard.
11In addition, Kinsler and Pavan (2011) find that the probability that a student attends a high-quality college increases with family income.
Long found, for example, that students are more likely to attain a bachelor's degree if they attend a higher-quality college.
