Paul Attewell's Study in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Selectivity Doesn't Improve Graduation Prospects, Study Finds

The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8.7.14

Paul Attewell, professor of sociology and urban education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York said that "policy makers should be careful not to give colleges incentives for not severing the most disadvantaged students, by overemphasizing graduation rates as performance measure," in accordance with a study he co-authored in the American Education Research Journal.