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Threats to the Health of Low-Income Children
4.9 million children – nearly one in ten – attends a school within a mile of a chemical facility. Children attending
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Raising the Bar for Everything: Prom Edition
Browsing social media this morning, this post popped into my feeds. I'd like to imagine that the algorithms
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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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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
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"almost criminal"
It's NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) test score reporting week, and as always, we have hand-wringing for
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Data on [Unequal] Childhood Well-Being
For years, I taught a course called Education and the American Dream. Students were juniors, seniors, and graduate students from
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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
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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
Book Review: Rising Class
In Rising Class: How Three First Generation College Students Conquered Their First Year, Jennifer Miller writes of Briani (a Latina
AI, Politics and Inequality from Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom has been one of my favorite sociologists for a long time, and her mini-lecture on inequality and
Book Review: Can College Level the Playing Field? by Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson
The context for much of what I think about on this site is articulated in the central question of this