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eBook
Climbing a Broken Ladder
2021
Overview
Although foster youth have college aspirations similar to their peers, fewer than one in ten ultimately complete a two-year or four-year college degree. What are the major factors that influence their chances of succeeding? Climbing a Broken Ladder advances our knowledge of what can be done to improve college outcomes for a student group that has largely remained invisible in higher education. Drawing on data from one of the most extensive studies of young people in foster care, Nathanael J. Okpych examines a wide range of factors that contribute to the chances that foster youth enroll in college, persist in college, and ultimately complete a degree. Okpych also investigates how early trauma affects later college outcomes, as well as the impact of a significant child welfare policy that extends the age limit of foster care. The book concludes with data-driven and concrete recommendations for policy and practice to get more foster youth into and through college.
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Subject
/ College
/ College attendance-United States-Case studies
/ Degree
/ Diploma
/ EDUCATION / Inclusive Education
/ EDUCATION / Counseling / Academic Development
/ Faculty
/ Foster children-Education (Higher)-United States-Case studies
/ Foster children-United States-Social conditions
/ School
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work
/ Success
/ Teacher
/ Youth
ISBN
9781978809208, 1978809204, 9781978809178, 1978809174
