“We have to have a much more nuanced understanding of the role that race plays in shaping opportunities,” says the author of a new book about the pursuit of the American dream in the suburbs.
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Shifts in demographics requires a shift in thinking
What responsibility does a college have to change when its student population changes? This new Hispanic-serving university started with the cost of books.
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Parent loans, another piece in the wealth gap puzzle
The loans prove risky for some families because, unlike direct student loans, they have so few options to decrease monthly payments.
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This first-gen story from the class of 2022 starts with a promise
Jessika Supreme promised herself that she would be everything that her mother could not accomplish. She’s now a recent graduate of Roxbury Community College.
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The weight of being ‘the first’
There’s no great joy in being the first African American president, says Dwight McBride of the New School. It’s a reminder of how much progress still needs to be made.
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Missing home, finding community, and pushing past failure
Three Native women share their stories of getting in and making it through college.
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Sports provide an important but underutilized path to college for Native students
Sports can provide a promising avenue to education for Native students, but they are even more underrepresented in college athletics than they are in higher education.
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The role of race in merit aid in the South
“I really want to call attention to the fact that we are excluding almost an entire population of students,” one Florida educator said.
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How popular merit scholarships have perpetuated racial inequities across the South
The rhetoric from these programs’ advocates has been that they expand opportunity equally, but the reality is that they have not.
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How open education centers student voices
One of the main findings of new research about the impact of free course materials was that instructors could focus more on student input.