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access go beyond minority to diversity. Affirmative action, too, has become race-exclusive and gender-neutral. The following …The 21st century has brought new challenges and opportunities for higher education. In the wake of the transition from … elitist to mass education, universities worldwide are under pressure to enhance access and equity, on the one hand, and to …
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Several recent studies provide evidence that the choice between private and public school among white students is influenced by the racial composition of the local student population.  None of these studies, however, examines whether Latinos are also fleeing to private schools in response to...
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quality for the pro-majority party with the opposite true for the minority party. The effect increases with greater numerical …
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examine whether "white flight" is from all minorities or only from certain minority groups, delineated by race or income.  We … evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren.  We also … find that white families are fleeing public schools with large concentrations of poor minority schoolchildren.  In …
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.  Variations in income per capita and especially parental education account for over 70% of the gap in private school attendance …
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This paper examines economic returns to schooling for China's Korean minority in the urban labour market using ordinary … recent studies for the Chinese urban labour market. We use parents’ education and spouse's education to instrument for … education as well as exploit heteroskedasticity to aid in identification. The two-stage least squares estimates using parents …
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For many community colleges, expanding enrollment demands coincide with shrinking resources, confronting policymakers with multiple competing constituencies of discouraged college-goers. At issue are whether community college enrollments are keeping pace with local growth among the...
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This report examines the role for race and ethnicity in supporting New England's population grouth. The educational …
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