August 17, 2007
Are the Right Students 'Upward Bound?'
A study of a key college-preparation program is becoming as controversial as the program itself
Larry Oxendine had been the director of the federal TRIO programs, which serve disadvantaged students, for only a few days when a draft report on the Upward Bound program landed on his desk. The results did not look good.
The 2002 draft report, the third in a series from a longitudinal study, compared Upward Bound participants and a control group approximately three years after each
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