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Aug18
Drexel University Study Says Race And Class Affect College Advice

A Drexel University professor analyzed the responses of some 1,700 guidance counselors to student profiles with information about academic performance, race, class and so on.

Regardless of academic performance, counselors were more apt to recommend community colleges to middle-class students than upper-class students. Let's see, middle-class students have less money than upper-class students. Community college is cheaper than four year college. Hmm...

For middle-class students with lower academic performance, black students were recommended more often to attend community college than white students. Um... what color are the application papers? Or was it because the student was sitting in front of them when they got their advice for school?

For wealthy students with low academic performance, white students were more likely to be recommended to attend community colleges.

Let's see - that means that community college classrooms have a mix of poor performing wealthy white kids and equally poor performing middle-class black students.

In any event, community college instructors are going to have their hands full with a mixed bag of poor performing students.

What do you think?

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