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Access Is Not Inclusion: Meet the Harvard Professor Who Studies Low-Income and Disadvantaged College Students
“Education alone does not erase generations of exclusion, racism that we see in the housing market, that we see in the job market, that we see in the very DNA of this country.” — Professor Anthony Jack, Ph.D. text When I was in high school, I was an idealist—especially when it came to my education.…
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SATs Invite Controversy With New 'Adversity Score'
After a week full of terrible ass ideas comes the news that the College Board—the organization responsible for administering SATs—will bestow students with an “Adversity Score” based upon their socioeconomic status. And if this sounds like another terrible ass idea, it’s because it is. Per CNN: The score takes into account information from the student’s…
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This White People College Cheating Scam Is the Perfect Example of Why We Need Affirmative Action
Whenever people try to tell me that affirmative action admissions policies give black people (and by extension other nonblack people of color) an unfair advantage, I always have to remind them that the deck is stacked against us in the first place. White privilege, systemic and institutionalized racism and nepotism are some of the biggest…