"Administrators have long suspected that most students who 'reverse transfer' from four-year institutions to community colleges -- given that they are typically from low-income families -- do so for financial reasons," Inside Higher Ed reports. "A new report, however, argues that parents' level of education has a bigger impact than does income, and that academic difficulty in the first years of college is more likely to be the reason behind reverse transfer. This month's issue of Sociology of Education -- a journal of the American Sociological Association -- features a report that attempts to explain the socioeconomic differences among college transfer students. The research of Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of education policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is based on the latest numbers from the National Educational Longitudinal Study. These numbers come from students who graduated from high school in 1992, and follow them through 2000. "