Inside Higher Ed, February 14, 2017: (Blog) Is it okay to base insights about community college pedagogy research conducted in the K-12 system?
“Most basically, we’re failing to capture the effects of very different life circumstances. That was why Sara Goldrick-Rab’s Paying the Price was so refreshing, and why I’m looking forward to reading Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Lower Ed. Both do the work of looking outside the research universities in which they were trained. That remains the exception.
When you do that, you notice things that often get ignored, like the direction of money flow in many low-income families, which goes from student to family. When policies are based on the assumption that it’s always the other way around, we’ll get some basic things wrong.”