“Rather than function to reverse gaps generated by inequities in K-12 education and housing and health, Carnevale says, higher education is now serving as a “capstone” that exacerbates those other mechanisms.”
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Apt. 11d 
Complicated data, which is fairly well explained in the link. I wanted to ask whether this graphic represents an exacerbating trend. The answer seems to be yes, but in a complicated way. There are more kids in the ‘selective institutions, because there are more selective institutions (defined by Barrons) today than in 1994 (the baseline comparison). Many of the schools I’ve heard of, including most of the state universities, are somewhere on that list of 400+ institutions — and there used to be 300+. More schools have worked to enter those ranks, and have been successful.
So, more students go to those categories of schools; but, most of those new students are white, and thus, the proportions by race are more skewed than they were in 1994.
To me, it sounds a bit like the hollowing of the middle that we talk about in everything (jobs, schools, life). There used to be a middle but now the middle either works to move into the top, or it slips into the bottom. That’s happened with colleges in the last 15 years, and the trend exacerbates the inequity (I was going to say inequality, but autocorrect used inequity, and, I think I want both) in our society.
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