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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
Essays
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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
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The Department of Education and Diminishing Financial Aid
As I write this, Linda McMahon, nominee for Secretary of Education, is testifying in her Senate confirmation hearing. Ms. McMahon
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A Century of Exclusion
The National Bureau of Economic Research recently released their detailed analysis of "the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds
Research
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Class Matters
In my post about the book White Poverty, I linked to Betsy Leondar-Wright's moderation of a webinar with
White Poverty: Exposing Myths of Race and Class
In the preface to White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy Reverend Dr. William
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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'