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
Community Colleges in the Federal Crosshairs
The New York Times has published an excellent report (gift link) on how federal budget cuts to higher education, framed
First-Gen Student "Assets" That We Don't Talk Enough About
I see so many authors writing about first generation students drawing on (parts of) Tara Yosso's article about
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Grading States on School Funding
I linked to the Education Law Center's state-by-state analysis of school funding in my earlier post about college
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Buying SAT/ACT Points
When I directed the masters program in my department, administrators higher up the food chain told us that we had
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Making the Education of Poor Kids Even More Precarious
By law, most federal funds arrive in school districts on July 1. This year, on June 30, the administration instead
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Faith in Fairness and Voting Against It
Stefanie Stantcheva, a MIT economist, has written about why people vote against redistributive policies from which they might benefit. She
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The Cost of College Got Higher Today
From the New York Times, the budget bill just passed by congress guts much of the loan relief that the