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I Was a Low-Income College Student. Classes Weren't the Hard Part.

September 10, 2019

The New York Times Magazine
By Anthony Abraham Jack PhD 2016. Schools must learn that when you come from poverty, you need more than  financial aid to succeed.

Anthony Abraham Jack is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (Harvard University Press, 2019). He received his PhD in Sociology from Harvard in 2016.



Q&A with Will Dobbie: Poverty and the common threads linking criminal justice, education, and consumer finance

September 17, 2019

Harvard Kennedy School | New faculty member Will Dobbie PhD 2013 talks about changing the conversation about poverty through a multidisciplinary approach.



High School Doesn't Have to Be Boring

March 30, 2019

The New York Times | By Jal Mehta PhD 2006 and Sarah Fine. Debate, drama and other extracurriculars provide the excitement many classrooms lack. And they can help overhaul the system, Mehta and Fine argue. The authors spent six years traveling the country studying high schools for their book, In Search of Deeper Learning, just published by Harvard University Press. Mehta is Associate Professor of Education at Harvard. Fine runs a teacher preparation program at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education in San Diego.



How to Make High School Better for Students

April 26, 2019

Los Angeles Times | By Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine. Jal Mehta PhD 2006 is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Sarah Fine runs a teacher preparation program at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education in San Diego. They are the authors of In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School, Harvard University Press, 2019.



How Harvard admissions can be a barometer of our deepest divides

September 27, 2019

CNN Opinion | By Jennifer Lee and Van C. Tran (PhD 2011). Van C. Tran is associate professor of sociology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Jennifer Lee is professor of sociology at Columbia University.



What States Can Do to Drastically Reduce Child Poverty

May 6, 2019

Governing | By Meg Wiehe and Christopher Wimer PhD 2007. Building on the federal Child Tax Credit would yield dramatic results, Wiehe and Wimer argue. Christopher Wimer received his PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard and is now Co-Director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University.



A conservative scholar questions whether the US really has an inequality problem

July 27, 2018

Quartz | Interview with Scott Winship PhD 2009, now Executive Director of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee.



Why elite colleges should use a lottery to admit students

January 8, 2019

The Conversation | By Natasha Warikoo PhD 2005, Associate Professor of Education, Harvard University. Reprinted in Times Higher Education, Quartz, San Francisco Chronicle, and others. Selected for Five Best Ideas of the Day by The Aspen Institute.



How the college admissions scandal busts racist stereotypes about who gets into elite schools. And shows why we need affirmative action.

March 15, 2019

Vox | By Natasha Warikoo PhD 2005.  Warikoo is Associate Professor of Education at Harvard and the author of The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities.



A letter to the class of 2023

March 29, 2019

New York Daily News | By Natasha Warikoo PhD 2005. Warikoo is Associate Professor of Education at Harvard and the author of The Diversity Bargain.

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