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Article: News and Views: Blacks Travel Further to Attend College Than All Other Ethnic Groups
- Article from:
- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- December 31, 1996
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News and Views: Blacks Travel Further to Attend College Than All Other. Ethnic Groups
Because black students are at least three times as likely to come from poor families as are white students, one would expect that blacks on average would be more likely than white students to attend schools closer to home. But just the opposite is true.
Possibly the best way to get rid of somebody at a cocktail party is to tell them about statistics on how far black students travel from home when they go to college. Sorry, but that is precisely what we intend to do to our readers right now.
For the past 30 years, the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles has ...