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February 2019

Book Launch and Signing: The Privileged Poor

February 13, 2019 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
American Academy of Arts and Sciences,, 136 Irving Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
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Please join us to celebrate the launch of Anthony Jack’s first book, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students. Jack is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, an assistant professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. His research and writing, as well as biographical experiences as a first-generation college student, have been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The National Review, NPR and other outlets. His scholarship…

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