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colleges and inequality

Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

OPINION: Do U.S. colleges reinforce or reduce inequality?

Avatar photo by Justin Snider September 12, 2019March 30, 2020

“When I decided to drop out of Columbia, nobody tried to stop me,” author Paul Tough says. “Columbia did not feel like it was their job to give me other options in life.” It was December 1985, the end of his first semester of college. The 18-year-old Canadian decided to return north and continue his […]

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