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  • Daniel Porterfield, president and CEO of The Aspen Institute and former president of Franklin & Marshall College <span>(Photo courtesy of Franklin & Marshall College)</span>

    Porterfield — Inside ‘The B.A. Breakthrough’: What an Inspiring New Book Reveals About America’s Growing Success in Propelling First-Generation Students To (and Through) College

    By Daniel R. Porterfield April 1, 2019
  • KIPP Gaston co-founder Tammi Sutton in 2006 with students, including some members of the founding class of 2009 (Photo courtesy of KIPP Gaston)

    Chapter 1: How the Opening of a High School on a Rural Peanut Field Altered the Educational Arc of a NC Town — and Doubled the Number of College Diplomas in 5 Years

    By Richard Whitmire April 1, 2019
  • Students at KIPP Gaston hold up T-shirts of colleges they were admitted to on College Signing Day. (Richard Whitmire/The 74)

    NY Daily News: The Strivers and the Fraudsters: What Low-Income College Kids Think of the Rich-and-Famous Scammers

    By Richard Whitmire April 5, 2019
  • Students walk on the campus of Queens College Flushing, NY. (Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

    What We’re Reading — NYT: The Implicit Punishment of Daring to Go to College When Poor

    By Enoch Jemmott April 5, 2019
  • The nationwide admissions scandal has institutions like Claremont McKenna worried that their gains in inclusiveness will be overshadowed. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

    What We’re Reading — LAT: Admissions Scandal Reinforces Stereotypes But Elite Colleges Admitting More Low-Income Students

    By Teresa Watanabe April 5, 2019
  • The culture of obsession about getting into a selective college is wildly unrepresentative of the college experience of almost all Americans. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

    What We’re Reading — New Yorker: Want to Fix College? Admissions Aren’t the Biggest Problem

    By Nicholas Lemann April 5, 2019
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