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| Autor/Autores: | Thomas A. DiPrete, Claudia Buchmann |
| Fecha de publicación: | Noviembre, 2014 |
| Alcance geográfico: | Internacional |
| Publicado en: | Internacional |
| Descargar: | Descargar PDF |
| Resumen: | In The Secret Behind College Completion, Columbia University Professor Thomas A. DiPrete and Ohio State University Professor Claudia Buchmann grapple with one of the central problems affecting upward mobility today—why so many college students fail to graduate. In the course of trying to better understand why, in recent years, women have outpaced men in the completion of college degrees, they uncover a profound correlation: girls do better than boys do in school by eighth grade and “eighth grade grades are a better predictor of completing college than are standardized test scores.” |
