Doug Henwood wrote: > > > Not exactly. According to Tom Mortenson's data, if you measure the > social class of college students by family income quartile, that's > not true. In 1970, 28% of students from the bottom quartile went on > to college, vs. 79% from the top, a spread of 51 points.
Quartieles don't matter. Leisure matters. Assumptions about post-college matter. I thought I made that clear. If the figures are available, the figures that _might_ make a difference is proportion of students who work more than 20 hours a week while taking a full load of courses. Also -- the attack on students (and higher education) that began in the '70s went under the heading of "raising standards." I'm not sure how to get that into any available social numbers. Carrol
