#The broken roads full#

Supporting students through postsecondary transitions should not rely on extraordinary humans - it requires an extraordinary system. Reimagining the Road to Graduation outlines steps that supportive adults can start implementing right away and envisions a long-term postsecondary system that is more seamless for students. Some hurdles can be mitigated with the help of caring adults, but other pitfalls are deep and systemic and largely out of any one individual’s or organization’s locus of control. Young people navigating to and through college amid the pandemic face many, many challenges, from the academic to the financial to the logistical.

#The broken roads full#

And without a college education, young people’s earnings, prospects, and life outcomes fall short of their full potential. Low-income students, first-generation students, rural students, and students of color face significant barriers to completing a degree. Wealthy students are five times more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree compared to the lowest-income students, and Black and Hispanic students compose 37% of the population but only 24% of bachelor’s degrees. Department of Education, the share of low-income high school students who expect to earn a bachelor’s degree has increased from just 19% in 1980 to over 90% in 2009.īut these aspirations are not met with equal results. Today, more young people from all races and income levels aspire to attend college than in any previous generation.