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Social Class Humor (!)
From the satire site The Onion: Impressionable Teen Falls In With The Wrong Social Class In which the distraught mother
Jane Van Galen
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When Power Working Against Equitable Education Becomes (Very) Visible
On the one hand, it's very good that the most recent "landscape analysis" released by First-Gen
K-12
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The Department of Education and Low-Income Children in K-12 Schools.
With so much news about the Department of Education (and rumors of yet more recent cuts), I wanted to do
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Auctioning Off Equity
The first time I heard about PTA auctions was when one of our teacher education students was hired at a
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More on Rural School Closures
I wrote a few days ago about proposals to preserve rural schools as hubs of their communities. Just this morning,
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New Data on First-Gen Students' [lower] College Completion Rates
There's a new research report out today on First Generation students' college completion rates, and the news
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Rural School Preserves: A Proposal
One in five young people in the U.S. attends a rural school. Many are poor and working-class students. With
Berea College: Tuition Free for Appalachian Students for Decades
Most students at Berea College in southeast Kentucky graduate debt free. 99% of them are Pell grant eligible, meaning that
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The Power to Deny Poor Families Internet Access
For a decade, libraries have been lending portable wifi hotspots to residents so that students, families, job seekers, elderly people
Understanding Students' Lives: Investing in the Work
Often, I see authors in the first-generation student literature making the curious argument that talking about the structural inequalities shaping
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Buying Opportunity: Back to School Edition
I'm still in summer mode, riding my bike for hours every week, stuffing too many zucchini from my
College Admissions and Nuanced Lives
There's been renewed talk about what "counts" in evaluating admissions applications for competitive colleges. While much