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Pretending That Playing Fields in Science are Equal
At the University of Texas San Antonio, 44% of the undergraduates are the first in their families to attend college.
Jane Van Galen
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Wealthaganda
I imagine analyses like Dominique J. Baker's of wealth and status in media in first year college seminars
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What's Possible: Free Child Care
In times of loss of so much that had been done in the name of a public good, I want
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"Horrific" Cuts to Rural Schools [Refusing Despair]
The Superintendent of Public Instruction in my state of Washington has released his analysis of the "horrific" impact
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Paying to Play Public School Sports
When I first moved to Seattle, I overheard teachers in a graduate class I was teaching talking about how their
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Pell Grants, but for Imaginary Students
The House Budget includes devastating changes to the Pell Grant program for low-income college students. Already severely underfunded, Pell Grants
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Cutting Pipelines to College
I've been traveling and catching up now to the many ways that low-income and first-generation students have lost
Book Review: Poverty, By America
I write often about the importance of poor and working-class students understanding the circumstances of their lives as they pursue
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Bed Parties. Bed Parties??
When I was accepted to the only college I'd applied to, I visited for orientation and bought a
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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,