The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985In the twentieth century, Americans have increasingly looked to the schools and, in particular, to the nation's colleges and universities as guardians of the cherished national ideal of equality of opportunity. With the best jobs increasingly monopolized by those with higher education, the opportunity to attend college has become an integral part of the American dream of upward mobility. The two year college which now enrolls more than four million