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College classism and low-income students in hiding
"Students who are low-income encounter classism in college". Of course they do. And in this study of low-income
Higher Ed
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Pathways to Leadership in the U.S.: Elite College Admissions
Who rises to leadership in the U.S.? It should come as no surprise that U.S. senators, Supreme Court
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When Employers Favor the Lacrosse Player Over the "Resilient" Applicant
With multiple links to multiple studies, sociologist Jessi Streib writes in Forbes of the many ways that employers discriminate against
K-12
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Clam Bakes and College Admissions
I wrote last week about ongoing struggles for adequate public school funding, both across and within school districts, and how
Dorm Room Designers and Disappearing Poor Students
At Ole Miss and other southern schools, hundreds of students are paying interior designers who specialize in dorm rooms to
My College Isn't Newsworthy. Is Yours?
There will hopefully be a good amount of attention on education policy in this U.S. election season. The question
Book Review: Class by Stephanie Land
Later, she'd go on to write the book Maid and that memoir of cleaning privileged people's
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Rural Students Appearing on the Admissions Radar
In winter when the trees were bare, I could see the field of corn stubble from my bedroom window, just
Anthony Abraham Jack and the Intersections of Class and Race
Anthony Abraham Jack's new book Class Dismissed on the intersections of class and race in higher ed comes
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Elite Education for the Political Elite?
There is a lot of news today about the democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz, including the fact that he&
Legacy Admissions: Where Are We?
If you (like me) have been looking for updates on what states (and the feds) are doing to ban legacy
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Hungry Students
This week, the Government Accountability Office issued a new report on student food insecurity, and it's grim. * 23%