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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
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Losing your Home, Losing Your School: New Research.
The Eviction Lab at Princeton has issued a new report, Losing your Home, Losing Your School: How Evictions Affect Kids&
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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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Being a Student While Hungry
The Hope Center has released its 2023-24 student basic needs survey, and the news is grim. At a time when
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Complicating Research on First Gen Students
This new brief report on a longitudinal study of 1000 first- year students entering college in 2018 deepens our understanding