Low-Income Kids in College

~ Laura

In the article “Who Gets to Graduate” in The New York Magazine, Paul Tough discusses the difficulties that low income kids face in college. Tough profiles some efforts at University of Texas to help those kids. I talked about the University of Texas and their great work at increasing their graduate rate here.

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3 thoughts on “Low-Income Kids in College”

  1. That sounds like a good program, but there is always the concern that pilot programs staffed by zealous idealists don’t scale when they are institutionalized and staffed by time servers.

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  2. Love how practical this is and without any blame or shame. Issue—>strategy

    And I love the demonstration that what the low income kids experience is common, but it’s the story that they tell themselves about the experience (it’s me, I’m not smart enough, I can’t do it) plus being unaware of help available that makes the difference in outcome.

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  3. In other words, part of privilege is the stories we tell ourselves when facing failure/adversity and our expectation/knowledge of help available.

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