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| | The Chronicle: 4/7/2006: The Rich-Poor Gap Widens for Colleges and Students |
 | | In the past 10 years, average spending on instruction per student at the wealthiest baccalaureate colleges — those in the top quartile, public and private — increased by 37 percent; at the same time, spending by those in the bottom quartile grew by only 6 percent. |
 | | By age 24, only 10 percent of students from the lowest socioeconomic quartile have earned bachelor's degrees, compared with 71 percent from those in the top quartile, says Thomas G. Mortenson, a senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. |
 | | Average student-aid packages for the top quartile of families, ranked by income, more than tripled from 1990 to 2004, growing by $4,555 after adjusting for inflation. |
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