privilege
Tim’s Tips: Complicating “White Privilege”: Race, Poverty, and the Nature of the Knapsack
Complicating “White Privilege”: Race, Poverty, and the Nature of the Knapsack By Paul C. Gorski (gorski@EdChange.org), http://www.EdChange.org, January 1, 2012 In my favorite photograph of my Grandma Wilma, taken during her early teens, she stands outside her Kitzmiller, Maryland, house. The house’s exterior, cracking and worn, hints at the working poor life she and her [...]
Tim’s Tips: Study Disputes Claims That Preferentially Admitted Students Catch Up
January 10, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education Study Disputes Claims That Preferentially Admitted Students Catch Up By Peter Schmidt A new study of Duke University undergraduates has found that those who are black or the children of alumni are disproportionately likely to switch from tough majors to easier ones, a move that creates the [...]
Tim’s Tips: ‘Unequal’ Children, All Grown Up
September 11, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education ‘Unequal’ Children, All Grown Up By Peter Monaghan The notion that people are born unequal is as un-American as nationalized health care. And yet social scientists have long known not only that Americans start life with varying degrees of privilege but also that socioeconomic differences tend to [...]
Tim’s Tips: Understanding and Dismantling Privilege (Journal)
Journal—Understanding and Dismantling Privilege First issue. (Vol 1, No 1, 2010) http://www.wpcjournal.com/issue/current