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In Manhattan, Preparing for Kindergarten Admission Test - NYTimes.com
"Test preparation has long been a big business catering to students taking SATs and admissions exams for law, medical and other graduate schools. But the new clientele is quite a bit younger: 3- and 4-year-olds whose parents hope that a little assistance — costing upward of $1,000 for several sessions — will help them win coveted spots in the city’s gifted and talented public kindergarten classes. "
A Parent’s Unemployment Stress Trickles Down to the Children - NYTimes.com
"For many families across the country, the greatest damage inflicted by this recession has not necessarily been financial, but emotional and psychological. Children, especially, have become hidden casualties, often absorbing more than their parents are fully aware of. Several academic studies have linked parental job loss — especially that of fathers — to adverse impacts in areas like school performance and self-esteem."
College Choice and the Success of Working-Class Students « Working-Class Perspectives
Excellent blog post from Sherry Linkon on working class students' completion rates and the complicated questions of college "fit" for working class students. Check out the comments for info on the great First Generation Program at UW Madison.
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An excellent essay on schooling, poverty, and the essential work of targeting poverty itself.
"For decades, solid analyses have demonstrated that while aspects of schooling can be important in improving student outcomes and alleviating the effects of poverty, the effects of factors schools cannot and do not control are much greater"
...."And to my knowledge, no study has ever rigorously compared the effectiveness of interventions based on cash transfers, housing subsidies, and teacher quality improvement"
News: Organized Against Labor - Inside Higher Ed
Attacks on Labor Centers at Universities as promoting a "particular political ideology".
Wealth Matters - Too Rich to Worry? Not in This Downturn - NYTimes.com
On the worries of the super-rich, and how their worries affect us all.
Some Economics of Privilege - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education
A good essay on teaching in a college where students are surrounded by privilege, where economic diversity is invisible.
News: SAT Scores Drop, Gaps Grow - Inside Higher Ed
Trends in this year's SAT scores:
"The growing gaps are even more visible when examined by income level. As in past years, there is a fairly direct pattern: the more money a student's family earns, the higher the SAT scores. But this year's figures show not only the gap, but its growth."
Welfare Versus Minimum Wage » Sociological Images
Why working hard does not always mean getting ahead.
Big City - Aristotle Circle Connects Parents With Educators, at $450 an Hour - NYTimes.com
"It would be her mission to democratize information for New York’s most competitive elite."
... in which a woman leaves Morgan Stanley to charge $495 and hour to advise anxious parents in New York about private school admissions.
Services include a $500 pre-K standardized test prep booklet.
News: The Real Costs of Merit Aid - Inside Higher Ed
More on needs-based vs merit-based scholarships:
"In fact, the study finds that, 10 years after private colleges begin offering merit aid, they are likely to be enrolling smaller shares of Pell Grant recipients and black students than they were prior to using merit aid."
Op-Ed Contributor - A Homespun Safety Net - NYTimes.com
Second in a series of NYT articles by Barbara Ehrenreich on families deeply affected by the recession and the broader issues of the lack of social safety nets for the poor in the U.S.
The Education Optimists: The Power Elite
The Education Optimists comment on the challenges of "studying up" -- of doing research among the elite (in this case, private universities) who maintain high levels of privacy.
You’re Not in Title-I-Land Anymore, part 1 | In Practice
A veteran teacher, on her first visit to her classroom in the first non- Title 1 school in which she will have taught, and the stunning differences in resources that she finds there.
Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality - Pathways
The new issue of Pathways, with good articles on global responses to poverty and inequality.
Oprah.com Community: The Taboo Topic: What Social Class Are ...
Oprah to take on the "taboo topic" of social class, with this message board already muddying the waters.
- Privilege: Class Dismissed
A reference to a good essay, from an intriguing blog.
News: 'Resilience' - Inside Higher Ed
And excellent interview with the co-editors of what appears to be an excellent new book.
The Universities in Trouble - The New York Review of Books
Quote: "The fact is that America's colleges —with notable exceptions including community colleges, historically black colleges, and a few distinctive private institutions such as Berea College in Kentucky (Berea charges no tuition but requires campus work from its students, who all come from low-income backgrounds)—have lately been exacerbating more than ameliorating the widening disparity of wealth and opportunity in American society."
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