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Pyne, Jaymes; Grodsky, Eric – Sociology of Education, 2020
Recent efforts to understand aggregate student loan debt have shifted the focus away from undergraduate borrowing and toward dramatically rising debt among graduate and professional students. We suggest educational debt plays a key role in social stratification by either deterring bachelor's degree holders from disadvantaged and underrepresented…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Student Financial Aid, Debt (Financial), Graduate Students
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Miech, Richard Allen; Elder, Glen H. Jr. – Sociology of Education, 1996
Investigates and compares the effects of motivation for service on persistence in teaching among teachers in the 1960s and 1970s. With the exception of women in the 1960s (when few alternative careers were available), frustration among service-oriented teachers led to low levels of teacher persistence. (MJP)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Employed Women, Employment Opportunities, Females