WASHINGTON: The BEOG Revolution
| Autor: | Harry J. Hogan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1973 |
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| Zdroj: | Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. 5:64-79 |
| ISSN: | 1939-9146 0009-1383 |
| Popis: | The Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program, authorized in the 1972 Education Amendments, is revolutionary legislation. BEOG assures each student of a grant of $1,400 less his assets and parents' contribution. It is commonly presented as a program to provide young people from lowincome families an opportunity to obtain a postsecondary education. It is better understood, however, as an income supplement justified by "equity," i.e., the desirability of providing everyone with an "entitlement" so as to equalize student resources to the extent of $1,400. The fact that the BEOG grantee has an "entitlement" makes the BEOG program, if well funded, an engine for revolutionary social change in two ways: (1) Wherever possible, costs now borne by other resources will be shifted to BEOG, and (2) the advent of BEOG should so change the circumstances and psychology of students obtaining the grants that their decisions regarding the type of education they want and the kind of institution they decide to attend might be changed. Middle-class access to BEOG is |
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