The changing face of higher education - David Wilson, Baltimore Sun

Two weeks ago, the Southern Education Foundation released a report, A New Majority, concluding that, for the first time in our history, the majority of students in America who are attending public schools qualify for free and reduced price lunches under a federal program designed to assist the lowest income students. The reason for the concern is that numerous long-term studies show that students from families in the lowest quarter of income are only about one-fifth as likely to obtain a four-year college degree by age 25 as those from families in the highest quartile. And, unfortunately this gap has been growing. Based on past studies, it appears that only a small percentage of the emerging college-age population will have the credentials to be admitted to and succeed at these campuses. But what of all the other students? http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bs-ed-poverty-education-20150131-story.html