CALIFORNIA DREAMS: Working-Class Writers in the California State University System

CALIFORNIA DREAMS: Working-Class Writers in the California State University System

The US Department of Education has found that forty percent of students who set out to complete a bachelor’s degree from a four-year institution fail to graduate in six years.¹ There are many reasons students leave college before they complete their degrees. A study conducted in 2009 found that work...

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1. Verfasser: Cassandra Dulin
Format: Buchkapitel
Sprache:eng
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Academic communities
Basic writing
College freshmen
College students
Colleges
Education
Educational institutions
Formal education
Full time students
High school students
Humanities instruction
Language arts
Pedagogy
School campuses
Schools
Secondary school students
Student diversity
Students
Universities
Writing instruction
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Zusammenfassung:The US Department of Education has found that forty percent of students who set out to complete a bachelor’s degree from a four-year institution fail to graduate in six years.¹ There are many reasons students leave college before they complete their degrees. A study conducted in 2009 found that working while going to school was the main reason students left before finishing their programs.² Juggling work and school is difficult and stressful. This same study also found that the students who dropped out due to strenuous work schedules admitted it would be too hard to reenroll. These students live with
DOI:10.2307/j.ctt1whm918.7