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...believe the real problems often instead lie with high schools in working-class communities, which should be doing more to encourage good students to think about and plan for college. As an alum from a “blue-collar-and-below” zip code, I well know the problems that plague many less affluent schools, many of which focus on ensuring students pass standardized tests and graduate from high school, with little attention paid to where they go afterwards. At my high school, for example, a counselor estimated that only about 20 percent of seniors each year...
Back in 2000, when it signed the deal, the publisher bought the public Rosie: the cuddly, funny, blue-collar Long Island girl who mother-henned the world, gave lavishly to charity, acted like a star-struck kid meeting her idols--and like Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, had a daily TV show to promote herself and her magazine activities. What they got, two years later, was a new Rosie: a heftier, more assertive, left-wing, out-of-the-closet lesbian--with no show...
...legacy, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67. This year’s admissions process even boasts a new program to track applicants according to a “geodemographic” indicator that draws a spotlight to applicants with blue-collar-and-below zip codes, Fitzsimmons said...
Today, Fitzsimmons has figured out a way to get behind the College Board’s moratorium on income-tracking. He and his team search for high-performing students in zip codes they know to be blue-collar or below...
Central to that message, says Fitzsimmons, is financial aid. “The general public misconceives how much Harvard costs,” he says. “And that’s especially true in blue-collar backgrounds. Joint-travel allows us to get the families in the room, which is very, very critical...