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RESEARCH: The Bachelor's Degree: A Hereditary Privilege?
Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 87, No. 03 (November 2005): 253-254.
Gerald W. Bracey
Rightly or wrongly, more and more people are coming to believe that a college degree is necessary for achieving the good life in America. It is dismaying, then, to find that the acquisition of this degree is taking on the character of hereditary privilege. A recent report by Tom Mortenson reveals that 'children lucky enough to be born into the highest-income families are now virtually assured of a bachelor's degree by age 24, while those unlucky enough to be born into the bottom quartile of family income have only the very slimmest chance of gaining similar status.'
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