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Some low-income students clean the bathrooms of their more affluent peers, have no food to eat during spring break, and enter through a separate door at school events. I wrote about how elite colleges are systemically failing their disadvantaged students. theatlantic.com/education/arch…
At some of the top universities in the country, there are policies in place that reify & amplify the class differences between their students. As a result, low-income students are constantly sent messages, both systemic & interpersonal, that they don’t belong at these schools.
Many elite schools have historically been built with the specific intention of serving the wealthy, as a result they often overlook, or simply ignore, the needs of students coming from intergenerational poverty.
The excellent book I cite in the article by @tony_jack is a must read if you’re interested in understanding how low-income students navigate elite schools. It shaped my thinking in such important ways.

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Clint Smith
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Prisons are full of insidious things but one of the most infuriating is that incarcerated people have to pay money to make a phone call. All the research we have says maintaining family ties reduces the likelihood of coming back & yet the system makes it as difficult as possible.
Today when I left class at the jail, one of the guys told me about how he doesn't even bother using the phones bc he would have to ask his family for money he knows they don't have. But as a result, he feels disconnected from them bc they don't talk often. It's all so backwards.
On any given day, 3 out of 4 people in jail *haven't been convicted of any crime.* Phone calls are often how they sort of their legal defense. But if you can't afford to make a call in the first place, it increases the likelihood of getting inadequate legal representation.
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Clint Smith
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There’s a recurring debate about how, or even whether, academics should orient their work towards the public. I know for me, seeing academics publicly put their scholarship in conversation with the world changed my life & led me to want to attend grad school in the first place.
The current iteration of that debate often involves twitter. I think it’s a good thing for academics to find new ways to communicate their ideas to the world & twitter is now one of those ways. So I find it bizarre when people suggest that academics, or anyone, shouldn’t use it.
Twitter is far from a perfect medium, but a large part of what keeps me on here is the fact that there are brilliant ppl whose work I might not otherwise be exposed to, who I now learn from every day. It’s democratized the world of ideas, especially for underrepresented voices.
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Clint Smith
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Honestly I’m glad to see more players getting in the faces of fans who do this. You shouldn’t have to let someone get away with tit. If any grown man other than my father called me “boy” *especially* a white person, things are not ending well.
There’s often a bizarre expectation in the context of black performance—whether athletic or artistic—that a person should simply ignore someone heckling them, even in the context of outright racism. That’s BS. The more someone does it w/o consequence the more it emboldens others.
The rule in every sporting arena should be if you heckle a player with some racist or in any way hateful language you’re banned for life. Period.
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James S Murphy
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A modest proposal: Stop using the term "elite colleges."
The word "elite" is almost always a stand-in for the schools with the lowest admit rates, as reported in US News. That's it.
Elite doesn't, however, just mean "most selective." It also means "the best." That's why it's perfectly fine to call Lebron or Katie Ledecky elite athletes. They are among the best performers in their sports, according to very clear metrics.
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124. However today, protesters were asking for funds for lunch. Unclear if admin discontinued meals delivery or if they’re just tired of dining services food. Or this may be a response to people wanting to help
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125. Or this may be a response to people wanting to help. I saw tweets from a professor at NYU yesterday who tried to send them pizza. Pizza delivery guy was lost so unclear if protesters received the pizza.
126. I should note that today is also day 3 of a lock-in protest at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School (ECFS), an elite private pre-K–12 day school in New York City.

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IIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTT'S #NBERDAY!!!

I'll be mostly reviewing papers from today's NBER releases, but a few from last week as well, as I didn't review any last week.
Today is going to be heavy on education-related topics. This is a sexy topic these days not least because educational institutions generate a lot of data and house economists. #NBERday
However, I should note here that economics of education is *adjacent to* some of my actual expertise, not my area of greatest mastery. Thus, while I can discuss these papers somewhat, several of them (seem to) disagree, and I can't tell you who to believe for sure. #NBERday
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Clara Jeffery
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Instead of Black Friday shopping, how about helping this teacher in a low-income SF school that just got its budget cut by $170K and lost its learning specialist get some basic classroom supplies? She asking for pencils and gluesticks ffs: donorschoose.org/project/our-sc…
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Low-income Ohioans in these 26 counties are not required to work to receive food stamps. They are 97% white.

95% of Ohio's African-American families live outside of these counties, where they must work to receive food stamps. Read more in my latest paper: communitysolutions.com/research/recei…
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45 Days Of @ElvisCostello: a twitter megathread in anticipation of the Oct 12 release date of LOOK NOW, the new LP by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

This is either a bright idea or a brilliant mistake, but this is only, this is only, this is only the beginning...
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Mostly I will be going chronologically from the early years right up to the present, but it feels right to start out with Costello's 2002 song, "45."

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