College and Career Ready? College Ambivalence and the Postsecondary Strategies of Low-Income High Schools
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| ID | 21407095 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Joseph Sageman (0000-0003-0284-4365, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2026 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Data de publicação | 2026-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The Urban Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0042-0972 • E-ISSN: 1573-1960 |
| Editora | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11256-026-00834-3 |
| OpenAlex | W7167715201 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 51 |
Low-income students and their educators confront conflicting evidence about the risks and rewards of college as a financial investment. Through 80 in-depth interviews, this article examines how urban high schools define their postsecondary strategies and advise students on their future plans. First, I document that schools with vocational missions and college-for-all philosophies are converging on a message of college ambivalence . Their staffs are eager to support students’ ambitions but are wary that college may not always represent a reliable route to economic mobility. Second, I show how college ambivalence is socially produced by the student debt crisis, low college persistence rates, and a tight labor market benefiting less educated workers. Third, I find that college ambivalence has major implications for students’ postsecondary decisions, including how they think about the purpose of college. High schools’ turn to college ambivalence exposes the limits of both college-for-all and career-based education as social mobility strategies
Ambivalence · Debt · Persistence (discontinuity) · Postsecondary education · Student debt · Vocational education · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Research Studies
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Bankers in the Ivory Tower
Paying the Price
Broke
The Privileged Poor
The Missing "One-Offs"
Gains and Gaps
Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99 percent”
The Effects of Career and Technical Education
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Debt and Graduation from American Universities
Predatory Inclusion and Education Debt
Mediators of Opportunity
What we have learned
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Potholes on the Road to College
School Strategies and the 'College-Linking' Process
Racialized Horizontal Stratification in US Higher Education
Advising through Adversity
Help-Seeking Behaviors as Cultural Capital
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College for some to college for all
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