Obama Proposal May Address Growing Education Gap
Recently, the New York Times reported on the growing education gap between low-income and affluent students. One study cited found that since the 1960s, the gap in standardized test scores has grown by about 40 percent.
And the gap isn't limited to primary and secondary education. A separate University of Michigan study, also cited in the article, found that since the late 1980s, the gap in college completion grew by about 50 percent.
Let's focus on the growing gap in college graduates. (We are, after all, the Student Loan Ranger.) The University of Michigan study focused on two generations of students: those born from 1961 to 1964 and those born from 1979 to 1982. Among the high income students, by 1989, about one-third of the first