Post by jrobles on Jul 25, 2016 22:03:34 GMT -6
I didn't see a thread for the journal for 7/25, so I'll post my findings here. The sources I'm looking at is how motivation at an early age helps with higher education.
Burd, Stephen. "A 'promising' Way to Help Low-income Students to and through College." The Hechinger Report. The Hechinger Report, 25 Mar. 2015. Web. 26 July 2016.
- Federal government pays $35 billion per year on the Pell Grant to help students
- Low income students tend to not know that financial aid is accessible or how to get them
- Because of that, they "conclude at an early age they will not be able to afford college." This re-enforces what we were talking about in one of our earlier meetings: some families discourage kids from pursuing higher education because college is too difficult to succeed in or too difficult to pay for.
- A school in Michigan had a program where private donors ensured higher education for those who graduated the school. These "programs appear to be effective because students know at a fairly young age that college will be affordable for them"