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372 pages; 6 x 9 inches

An Assessment

Edited by Elizabeth A. Abramowitz

Equal Educational Opportunity for Blacks in U.S. Higher Education: An Assessment brings together a wide range of information on blacks in higher education during the 1973–74 academic year.  In this report by the Institute for the Study of Educational Policy, the equality of educational opportunity is assessed as one indication of the improved, but still unequal, social status of blacks in American society. By the 1970s, the book reveals, blacks had made significant gains in U.S. higher education. Yet even with the help of supportive legislation, court decisions, affirmative action programs, and increased financial aid, the achievement remained irregular and inadequate. This report provides an exhaustive review of the status of blacks in higher education in the mid-1970s, the economic returns of education for blacks, the continuing barriers to equal educational opportunity, and the problems associated with the racial data by which public policies are sometimes determined.

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