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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
Higher Ed
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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
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