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The Schools That Are Bringing Poor Kids Into the Middle Class

Strategies for recruiting and retaining low-income students aren’t particularly novel, though they can be tough to implement at scale.
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The evidence is clear: A college degree is, in most cases, the key to more money and a more comfortable standard of living. But that pathway to higher earnings is more available to some than others: A lot of elite colleges do not enroll a lot of low-income students, and as a result they’re not boosting

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