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Report: Income Inequality Poses Obstacle for Obama College Completion Drive

by Jamaal Abdul-Alim , May 20, 2011

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Richard Kahlenberg
Richard Kahlenberg is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and a Pell Institute Advisory Board member.

He also said efforts to bolster TRIO and GEAR UP “makes a lot of sense.”

Panelist Zakiya Smith, a senior Advisor for education for the White House Domestic Policy Council, called the recommendations of the 20/20 report “spot on.”

“We have to do a better job at each piece of the pipeline to get to the 2020 goal,” she said of the report’s recommendations to address disparities at both the K-12 and postsecondary levels. “We have to make sure we don’t create a system where all middle class kids get bachelor’s degrees and everyone else gets something else.”

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