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Title: Is Going to a Community College Better than Not Going to College at All?
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Monk-Turner, Elizabeth A. |
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Is Going to a Community College Better than Not Going to College at All? Presented: Cincinnati, OH, American Statistical Association Annual Meetings, August 1991 Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: American Statistical Association Keyword(s): College Education; Colleges; Educational Returns; High School Completion/Graduates; Occupational Status; Racial Differences An examination of occupational differences on the Duncan index between high school graduates and community college entrants for a cross-section of young men drawn from the NLS. For the sample as a whole and for whites, community college entrants who completed 2+ years significantly enhanced their occupational status over comparable high school graduates; for blacks, community college entrants had to acquire 4+ years to significantly enhance their occupational status over black male high school graduates. Community college education appears to be problematic for blacks: while acquisition of a higher education is generally considered a positive good, the kind of educational opportunity offered by community colleges tends to reinforce rather than alleviate racial differences in socioeconomic status. Community college entrants who acquire 1 year of college or who drop out are not significantly better off occupationally than high school graduates; thus, controlling for other variables, the Associate of Arts degree is not a significant predictor of occupational achievement. [Sociological Abstracts, Inc.] |
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Monk-Turner, Elizabeth A. "Is Going to a Community College Better than Not Going to College at All?" Presented: Cincinnati, OH, American Statistical Association Annual Meetings, August 1991. |