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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
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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,
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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