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How Colleges Fail Disadvantaged Students
Season 1 · Episode 364

How Colleges Fail Disadvantaged Students

Tony Jack, author of The Privileged Poor and assistant professor at Harvard, discusses the experiences of low income students as colleges try to diversify student population, and ways we can change it for the better.

The Harvard EdCast · Tony Jack, Jill Anderson

October 28, 202025m 29s

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Show Notes

In this encore episode of the Harvard EdCast, which originally aired on February 13, 2019, Tony Jack discusses the consequences of conflating access and inclusion — and the barriers that low-income students face when they get to college -- a situation even more important in the wake of campus closures due to COVID. 

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college accessfirst generation college goershigher educationlearning