The pressure to expand post-secondary educational opportunities during this decade has resulted in a shift of historical proportion in state and federal funds allocated to higher education in the United States. If that shift becomes permanent, the attainment level of the middle class as a whole would rise to fourteen or even sixteen years. One of the most certain consequences of that reality would be to deny sufficient funds to those at the lowest level, whose needs are not yet being met in elementary and secondary schools. Such a transfer of funds would advance the interests of the middle class while blocking attainment of the lowest group at a point below the minimum required for entering post-secondary education. The latter group would be forced out of the schools at a point that would effectively deny them any further educational benefits, a situation that prompted Christopher Jencks to suggest that school dropouts be given some alternative social benefit, such as subsidized housing or tax rebates.
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