ehhh, then why are all the girls going tho
Good question and one that no one has really answers yet. The Atlantic had a decent article on this about a year or two ago. Interesting tidbit that applies primarily to black men from that article
Less women are still going to college, it’s just the dramatic decline has been with men. But cost is still the primary barrier to entry
A recent viral news story reported that a generation of young men is abandoning college. The pattern has deep roots.
www.theatlantic.com
“This male haphazardness might be reproducing itself among younger generations of men who lack stable role models to point the way to college. Single-parent households have grown significantly more common in the past half century, and 80 percent of those are headed by mothers. This is in part because men
are more likely to be incarcerated; more than 90 percent of federal inmates, for example, are men. Men are also less likely to be fixtures of boys’ elementary-school experience; about 75 percent of public-school teachers are female. Suggesting that women can’t teach boys would be absurd. But the absence of male teachers might be part of a broader absence of men in low-income areas who can model the path to college for boys who are looking for direction.
This argument might sound pretty touchy-feely. But some empirical research backs it. A
2018 study of social mobility and race led by the Harvard economist Raj Chetty found that income inequality between Black and white Americans was disproportionately driven by bad outcomes for Black boys. The few neighborhoods where Black and white boys grew up to have similar adult outcomes were low-poverty areas that also had high levels of “father presence.” That is, even boys without a father at home saw significantly more upward mobility when their neighborhood had a large number of fathers present. High-poverty areas without fathers present seem to be doubly impoverished, and boys who live in these neighborhoods are less likely to achieve the milestones, such as college attendance, that lead to a middle-class salary or better”
www.nea.org
soeonline.american.edu
www.americanbar.org
www.bostonherald.com
