Asking the Wrong Questions 2: Campus First-Gen Supports
I wrote recent post about how the assumptions of the powerful often shape the questions that researchers ask about poor
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Asking the Wrong Questions: The Single Parent/School Achievement Edition
So much public policy – especially the stinginess of social safety nets – is based on deep-seated beliefs that if only poor
People from Poor and Working-Class Backgrounds at the [Next] Table
I'm thinking a lot about who will be at the table as we move forward in our public
Educating for Class Diversity in Leadership
We've long known that the Ivy Plus schools (the eight Ivy League colleges plus Chicago, Duke, MIT and
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Forum: The Histories of the U.S. Department of Education
History of Education Quarterly has published an excellent forum on the history of the U.S. Department of Education. On
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Earning Less With Your Degree If You Started With Less
We've known for years that low-income college graduates earn less after graduating than their higher-income peers. A new
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Which First-Generation Students Are/Are Not of Interest to Scholars?
There are many forms of scholarly writing, and book-length studies of campus life take us beyond surveys or interview-with-strangers papers
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New Data on First-Gen Students' [lower] College Completion Rates
There's a new research report out today on First Generation students' college completion rates, and the news
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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
Understanding Students' Lives: Investing in the Work
Often, I see authors in the first-generation student literature making the curious argument that talking about the structural inequalities shaping
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Lacking a Language About Social Class
Among the many things that sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom talks about throughout this excellent podcast conversation is the political consequences
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Paying to Play Public School Sports
When I first moved to Seattle, I overheard teachers in a graduate class I was teaching talking about how their