Online Learning Update

April 27, 2018

Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Colleges

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

By KYLE SPENCER, NY Times

Community colleges have long catered to low-income students who dream of becoming the first in their families to earn a college degree. And for many, that remains their central mission. But as middle- and upper-middle-class families like the Shahverdians face college prices in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, more of them are looking for ways to spend less for their children’s quality education.  “This is about social norms,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University in Philadelphia. “More middle-class parents are saying, I’m not succumbing to the idea that the only acceptable education is an expensive one.”

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