Fifty Cents or Five Thousand Dollars?
We need creative, disruptive solutions that make a real and lasting dent on inequalities in college completion.
Education
Teachers Like You Like You: How Finding Common Ground Could Help Close the Achievement Gap
We like people like ourselves. Scientists call it the homophily principle, which states that like birds, people tend to flock with others who look and think and act like themselves.
Affirming Their Way to the Top: How A Small Intervention Could Help Close the Social Class Achievement Gap
Almost a fifth of all undergraduate students in America are the first in their families to go to college.
Informal Biases Impede Women and Minorities at “Pathways“ Leading into Academia
Although there is ample evidence showing that women and minorities face discrimination in higher levels of academia, a new study suggests that the unequal treatment exists before students even apply to doctoral programs.