Education

To receive full credit on this assignment, you must answer the following question(s) completely and correctly with specific, and properly cited, reference to course material. Answers should utilize complete sentences, be clearly and professionally written, and be free from spelling, grammar, word-choice, and syntax (sentence construction) errors.

1.    From the Porter and Cook readings (linked to on the first page of this module), choose and describe four different factors that help to explain why poor and/or minority children suffer worse educational outcomes than do their class and race-privileged peers.
   
2. From the Frontline Documentary, A Subprime Education, list two reasons why the rise of for-profit colleges in America is a problem.  Some for-profit colleges, such as Corinthian, have been accused of engaging in fraudulent or predatory practices.  Give one example.