Fifty Cents or Five Thousand Dollars?
We need creative, disruptive solutions that make a real and lasting dent on inequalities in college completion.
We need creative, disruptive solutions that make a real and lasting dent on inequalities in college completion.
In an increasingly busy world, many parents have a hard time regularly engaging with their kids.
We’ve all witnessed it: it’s the end of the semester and the professor’s office is overflowing with nervous students. They’re asking for extra credit, extra assignments, or just a little extra sympathy.
As Asimov declared in his famous 1959 essay on creativity and idea generation, “The world in general disapproves of creativity.”
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.
Almost a fifth of all undergraduate students in America are the first in their families to go to college.