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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
Book Review: Rising Class
In Rising Class: How Three First Generation College Students Conquered Their First Year, Jennifer Miller writes of Briani (a Latina
Rural Students and Declining Opportunity
Rural students enrolled at regional public universities are facing declining opportunities as their underfunded colleges slash majors. While many colleges
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Incremental Gains in Campus Diversity: A New Report
Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce has released a new report, Progress Interrupted: Evaluating a Decade
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Organizing for Equity
The group Class Action has been doing great work around ending legacy admissions at elite campuses. There's much
Stanford, On Classism
In my ongoing quest to find discourse about class and classism on campus, I just came across Stanford's
"Confessing" Class on Campus
Last week, I wrote about how rarely colleges and universities name the classism that low-income and working-class students experience on
"Don't Be a Snob"
We know that many low-income/ working class students work to conceal their backgrounds on campus to avoid judgment and stigma.
A Blue Print for Student "Basic Needs Infrastructure"
A few years ago when a student just disappeared from class, I called her and learned that her car had
An Annual Celebration of First-Gen College Students
One of my interests is in what poor and working-class students learn about themselves via messages that they get from