Office of the Vice President2020-05-182020-05-182009http://hdl.handle.net/10919/98443This article focuses on the pathway to higher education, scanning existing research for evidence of any barriers that block families and their children from achieving their educational goals. The article points out what barriers still exist and how they vary by factors like income and family background. Why does this matter? Because a clear pathway to a college education is a clear pathway into the middle class.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalaccess to higher educationadministrative barriersmiddle class familiesArticlehttps://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1746&context=key_workplace