Monday, September 19, 2016
William T. Grant and Century Foundations Support Study on Effects of For-Profit Schools on African-Americans
Students from disadvantaged neighborhoods are often drawn to for-profit trade schools after high school, seeing them as the quickest route to jobs.
A new study finds the streamlined, focused curriculum that makes for-profit schools appealing is also the reason many poor students drop out, however.
A new study of 150 black youths from some of Baltimore’s lowest-income neighborhoods shows that young people who attended for-profit institutions ended up in more debt and with fewer job prospects than they might have had they attempted two- or four-year nonprofit schools...