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TRIO on the Chopping Block
Proposed federal budgets would cut TRIO, the program that since the 60s has provided supports to low-income first-generation college students
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Losing your Home, Losing Your School: New Research.
The Eviction Lab at Princeton has issued a new report, Losing your Home, Losing Your School: How Evictions Affect Kids&
When Advice on Academic Publishing Misses
First Gen Forward has released a new resource guide: Scholarly Writing Insights: A Guide for First-gen and Emerging Scholars, Faculty,
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Cutting Public Access to the Key Scholarly Database about Education
Students in nearly all academic courses about education learn about the ERIC database. Maintained by the Department of Education, the
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A "Harrowing" Time for Head Start
Please read and share Anya Kemenetz' reporting on this "harrowing" time of budget cuts and uncertainty for
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Threats to the Health of Low-Income Children
4.9 million children – nearly one in ten – attends a school within a mile of a chemical facility. Children attending
Book Review: Know That You Are Worthy: Experiences from First-Generation College Graduates
The literature on first-generation college students includes a rich collection of edited books in which academics and other professionals from
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Regional Colleges as the (Threatened) Lifeblood of Their Communities
As the national press is – again – focused on the administration's actions at a handful of elite colleges, ProPublica
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Raising the Bar for Everything: Prom Edition
Browsing social media this morning, this post popped into my feeds. I'd like to imagine that the algorithms
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Mandating College Admissions That Favor the Rich
On February 14, the U.S. Department of Education issued a "Dear Colleague" letter to schools, colleges, and
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More on the Department of Education Cuts
Updates on cuts to the Department of Education: Yesterday, 21 democratic Attorneys General filed a lawsuit against the cuts, arguing
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In Which the Powerful Decimate the Federal Financial Aid System
Inside Higher Ed has a summary up this morning of how deeply this weeks' cuts at the Department of