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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
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Being a Student While Hungry
The Hope Center has released its 2023-24 student basic needs survey, and the news is grim. At a time when
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Giving up on Equality: The Destruction of the Department of Education
“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men [sic], the
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Complicating Research on First Gen Students
This new brief report on a longitudinal study of 1000 first- year students entering college in 2018 deepens our understanding
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Becoming [a version of] Middle Class
I have been in so many conversations with other first-gen academics about what it means to be critically upwardly mobile.
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Pushing Back
I wanted to stand up and cheer when I read this account of a consortium of community college leaders working
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The Changes to Education, So Far
It can be hard to keep up with the firehose of information from the federal government. Thus, this Hechinger Report
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Who Isn't Worthy of Empathy: An Abbot Elementary Case Study
I love the TV show Abbott Elementary. I love how deeply the show nudges its audience toward empathy as characters&
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Private College Counselors For Some Students? Fine. But the Low-Income Students Can Have Bots.
Because the application processes for federal financial aid are complicated and the student loan repayment system has been shifting so