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Education and the American Dream  - Nicholas Kristof writes in a New York Times column: “The best escalator to opportunity in America is education. But a new study underscores that the escalator is broken.... A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. But the American dream seems to have emigrated  

How Rural Students Define the American Dream - Honestly, I think that my family and I would be living the American Dream. My mom—she's going to get a job here one of these days, and I'm going to school and hopefully going to get into a college to get a decent job. Education is the key to a lot of things, and it is the key to ending the cycle of poverty .

Meet The Chinese Students Living The American Dream  - Both socially and academically, the American education system is very different from the Chinese," Nora says. "Take the history homework as an ...

No More American Dream? Less Indian Students Are Going To Trump's America - US universities have registered a sharp decline in the number of applications from Indian students after a spate of hate crimes, fear and anxiety about potential changes to visa policies by the Trump Administration. According to the preliminary results of a survey of more than 250 American colleges and universities conducted by six top American higher education groups, students from India this fall registered a 26 per cent decline in undergraduate applications and 15 per cent decline has been reported in graduate applications. The full version of the 'Open Doors 2016' report is slated to be released later this week. These higher educational institutions reported a drop of an average of 40 per cent application from international students.

College plays a powerful role in achieving the American dream - I am an unlikely president of an liberal arts college. But as the son of a coal miner, a first-generation college student, and someone who works with college kids every day, I know firsthand the transformative power of higher education in America . I have witnessed how it breaks the cycle of poverty and ...

Examining Obama's education plan  - Part of the American Dream has been the possibility of social mobility and the ... agrees on one thing: many people are in need of a good education .

With one small tax, America could insure the next generation a brighter future  - Nothing is more central to the American dream than equality of opportunity. In today's world, that usually means a college education — and, for most ...

America still divided by racism into two separate, unequal societies - The Kerner Commission described a country in which African- Americans faced systematic discrimination , suffered from inadequate education and housing, and lacked access to economic opportunities. For them, there was no American dream. The root cause was “the racial attitude and behavior of ...

Michael Schramm: The oppression of poverty  - Whoever believes that the “ American Dream” is alive and well for everyone is simply ... First, I'd like to discuss the effect of poverty on education.