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Listening to Poor and Working-Class [Non]Voters
I've spent a lot of time in the past few weeks listening to political discourse about social class.
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Even More Unequal Childhoods
If I were in charge, I'd have a session during first-year orientation in which I challenged all the
Selective Omissions in What Campuses Tell First-Gen Students About Themselves
I listen closely to campus messaging for what first-generation college students learn about themselves via available support programming. These programs
Penalizing (Mostly) Low-Income Applicants for AI Use on College Admissions Essays
I was just mindlessly scrolling in line at the hardware store when I learned about admissions readers penalizing low-income students
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Opportunity Hoarding in K-12 Public Schools
I'm a big fan of studying social class across the spectrum, from privilege to poverty. There are too
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Rewarding the Scholarly and Creative Pursuits of Elite Academics
One of my favorite scholars of higher education policy is Dominique Baker who, along with Christopher Bennett, has just released
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Complicating "Belonging"
I often read in the first-gen student literature about the importance of a sense of "belonging" for student
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Economic Segregation in Schools
The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford has created an interactive tool by which we can trace economic and racial segregation
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We Can't Solve Class Gaps in Careers that We Decline to See
I've written before about Anna Stansbury and Kara Rodriguez's research on social class gaps in academia.
Asking the Wrong Questions 2: Campus First-Gen Supports
I wrote a recent post about how the assumptions of the powerful often shape the questions that researchers ask about
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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