College for the Masses
And the two studies have come to remarkably similar conclusions: Enrolling in a four-year college brings large benefits to marginal students.
.. You can imagine a scenario in which college graduates would thrive regardless of whether they went to college, because of their own skills and drives. By this same logic, helping more people become college graduates might not necessarily benefit them. But the new findings are the latest, and maybe strongest, reason to believe that college matters.
.. Learning to navigate college fosters a quality that social scientists have taken to calling grit.