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Left Behind: Unequal Opportunity in Higher Education
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
11/4/2008
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The 1965 Higher Education Act and its successors have sought to ensure that no student would be denied a college education because of his or her financial condition. President Lyndon B. Johnson set out the ambitious goal that “a high school student anywhere in this great land of ours can apply to any college or any university in any of the fifty states and not be turned away because his family is poor.” Continue Reading Here (PDF).
Read other reports in the Reality Check series here. Originally Published in 2004, this publication was updated in November 2008.
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Edition: online
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Taking Note
