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Pretending That Playing Fields in Science are Equal
At the University of Texas San Antonio, 44% of the undergraduates are the first in their families to attend college.
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Wealthaganda
I imagine analyses like Dominique J. Baker's of wealth and status in media in first year college seminars
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What's Possible: Free Child Care
In times of loss of so much that had been done in the name of a public good, I want
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"Horrific" Cuts to Rural Schools [Refusing Despair]
The Superintendent of Public Instruction in my state of Washington has released his analysis of the "horrific" impact
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Pell Grants, but for Imaginary Students
The House Budget includes devastating changes to the Pell Grant program for low-income college students. Already severely underfunded, Pell Grants
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Cutting Pipelines to College
I've been traveling and catching up now to the many ways that low-income and first-generation students have lost
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Bed Parties. Bed Parties??
When I was accepted to the only college I'd applied to, I visited for orientation and bought a
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TRIO on the Chopping Block
Proposed federal budgets would cut TRIO, the program that since the 60s has provided supports to low-income first-generation college students
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Cutting Public Access to the Key Scholarly Database about Education
Students in nearly all academic courses about education learn about the ERIC database. Maintained by the Department of Education, the
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A "Harrowing" Time for Head Start
Please read and share Anya Kemenetz' reporting on this "harrowing" time of budget cuts and uncertainty for
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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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Regional Colleges as the (Threatened) Lifeblood of Their Communities
As the national press is – again – focused on the administration's actions at a handful of elite colleges, ProPublica