For-profit trade schools prove costly for disadvantaged black youth
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 15:31
in Psychology & Sociology
Young African-Americans from some of the country’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods are drawn to for-profit post-secondary trade schools, believing they are the quickest route to jobs. But a new study co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University sociologist finds the very thing that makes for-profit schools seem so appealing—a streamlined curriculum—is the reason so many poor students […]