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
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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
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