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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
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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