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Structural Economic Barriers: Internet Access
When I taught elementary school in southern Appalachia early in my career, none of the very low-income children in my
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"almost criminal"
It's NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) test score reporting week, and as always, we have hand-wringing for
On Simply Explaining The Rules of the College Game
I've seen dozens of articles and essays talking about how so many first-gen/low income students don'
Celebrating (some parts of being) First-Generation Students
Over the holidays, I worked my way through FirstGen Forward's Instagram posts on the recent national First Gen
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Data on [Unequal] Childhood Well-Being
For years, I taught a course called Education and the American Dream. Students were juniors, seniors, and graduate students from
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"Merit": Membership in Trustees' Personal Networks
In June of 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the admissions decisions at the University of North Carolina
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When We Pretended that Testing was Equity
Too much of this article 0n changes being observed in college students is anecdotal, but the story does refocus attention
What Does College Actually Cost?
I'm weary of how often I read about poor and working-class students not having the information about college
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When $1250/Hour Tutoring Is Masked as "Merit"
On the one hand, admissions policies that consider race have been deemed anti-meritocratic. On the other hand, wealthy parents hellbent
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Tracking Economic Mobility: An Interactive Map
Harvard's Opportunity Insights team and the Census Bureau have collaborated on a powerful Opportunity Atlas that analyzes – at
Engines of Mobility, Struggling for Funding
I wrote last week about the very unequal resources available to students enrolled in colleges with highly competitive admissions and