{"id":68901,"date":"2019-12-04T07:46:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T12:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=68901"},"modified":"2019-12-04T07:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T12:46:55","slug":"opinion-the-odds-are-still-stacked-against-low-income-college-students-here-are-some-ways-to-expand-the-possibilities-eubanks-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/12\/04\/opinion-the-odds-are-still-stacked-against-low-income-college-students-here-are-some-ways-to-expand-the-possibilities-eubanks-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: The odds are still stacked against low-income college students; here are some ways to expand the possibilities [Eubanks-Davis]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport-org.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/hechingerreport.org\/opinion-the-odds-are-still-stacked-against-low-income-college-students-here-are-some-ways-to-expand-the-possibilities\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>OPINION: The odds are still stacked against low-income college students; here are some ways to expand the possibilities<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from hechingerreport-org by Aimee Eubanks-Davis; with thanks to Joseline Hardrick at the WMU-Cooley Law School for posting this on LinkedIn<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Unfortunately, the odds for low-income students are still stacked against them. In fact, only one in four will graduate with a strong first job or enter graduate school. There is no safety net for these students. In fact, for their families,\u00a0<i>they\u00a0<\/i>are the safety net. They\u2019ll start college expecting to leave with good-paying jobs with benefits that allow them to pay back loans, help their parents or other family members financially, and lead a self-sustaining life. Instead, the jobs that college graduates from low-income backgrounds do eventually land set them on an incongruent path to earn\u00a0<a class=\"monsterinsights-outbound-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/social-mobility-memos\/2016\/02\/19\/a-college-degree-is-worth-less-if-you-are-raised-poor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/social-mobility-memos\/2016\/02\/19\/a-college-degree-is-worth-less-if-you-are-raised-poor\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570236228505000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFSo-4_-dF9YOs5HBbvVBaaYQN-Dw\" data-vars-action=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/social-mobility-memos\/2016\/02\/19\/a-college-degree-is-worth-less-if-you-are-raised-poor\/\" data-vars-category=\"outbound-link\" data-vars-label=\"66 cents on the dollar compared to their more affluent peers\">66 cents on the dollar compared to their more affluent peers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>When we help provide low-income and first-generation college students the tools to overcome gaps in skills, assist them in getting a foot in the door at a top internship and connect them with professionals in the field, they will blow us away every time. I, for one, am excited to see a world in which extraordinary diverse leaders can emerge truly from anywhere and everywhere.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION: The odds are still stacked against low-income college students; here are some ways to expand the possibilities &#8212; from hechingerreport-org by Aimee Eubanks-Davis; with thanks to Joseline Hardrick at the WMU-Cooley Law School for posting this on LinkedIn Excerpts: Unfortunately, the odds for low-income students are still stacked against them. In fact, only one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,127,115,498,302,306,343,3,419,269,166,105,480,321,214,11,299,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-collaboration","category-colleges","category-communities-of-practice","category-community-colleges","category-economics","category-education","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-professional-development","category-social-learning-networks","category-social-media","category-society","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vision-possibilities","category-workplace","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68902,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68901\/revisions\/68902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}