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Rural School Preserves: A Proposal
One in five young people in the U.S. attends a rural school. Many are poor and working-class students. With
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The Power to Deny Poor Families Internet Access
For a decade, libraries have been lending portable wifi hotspots to residents so that students, families, job seekers, elderly people
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Buying Opportunity: Back to School Edition
I'm still in summer mode, riding my bike for hours every week, stuffing too many zucchini from my
Community Colleges in the Federal Crosshairs
The New York Times has published an excellent report (gift link) on how federal budget cuts to higher education, framed
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Buying SAT/ACT Points
When I directed the masters program in my department, administrators higher up the food chain told us that we had
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Making the Education of Poor Kids Even More Precarious
By law, most federal funds arrive in school districts on July 1. This year, on June 30, the administration instead
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Faith in Fairness and Voting Against It
Stefanie Stantcheva, a MIT economist, has written about why people vote against redistributive policies from which they might benefit. She
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The Cost of College Got Higher Today
From the New York Times, the budget bill just passed by congress guts much of the loan relief that the
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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