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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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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
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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
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'
Celebrating (some parts of being) First-Generation Students
Over the holidays, I worked my way through FirstGen Forward's Instagram posts on the recent national First Gen
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When We Pretended that Testing was Equity
Too much of this article 0n changes being observed in college students is anecdotal, but the story does refocus attention
What Does College Actually Cost?
I'm weary of how often I read about poor and working-class students not having the information about college
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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
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