But a new book by Harvard professor Anthony Abraham Jack, called The Privileged Poor, argues that the recruiting tactics of these colleges are leaving a lot of people behind. According to Jack ...

Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Anthony Abraham Jack grew up in a single-parent household in West Coconut Grove, Florida, one of Miami’s most impoverished neighborhoods.

But once those students arrive on campus, says Anthony Abraham Jack, they often find the experience isolating and foreign. "There's a difference between access and inclusion," explains Jack ...

By ANTHONY ABRAHAM JACK SEPT. 10, 2019 Night came early in the chill of March. It was my freshman year at Amherst College, a small school of some 1,600 undergraduates in the hills of western ...

We see them crying, dancing, screaming, and we assume these young people have won “a golden ticket,” as sociologist Anthony Abraham Jack puts it. But the reality for these high achievers is ...

Anthony Abraham Jack, a professor of education at Harvard, was the first member of his family to attend college. During his childhood, in the eighties and nineties, his mother worked as a security ...

"Office hours are a way for your professor to get to know you," explains Anthony Abraham Jack, a professor at Harvard University and the author of The Privileged Poor. "You gain access to ...

says Harvard Graduate School of Education assistant professor Anthony Abraham Jack. While schools have become increasingly diverse over the past decade — Black and Hispanic students enrolled at ...

In honor of this milestone, this Thursday evening UNC hosted author Anthony Abraham Jack at the Student Union. Jack, an author of two books discussing the inequalities present in college education ...

“The court did not get rid of preferences in admissions,” said Anthony Abraham Jack, a sociology professor at Boston University who researches how to make higher education more accessible to f ...