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Virginia Woolf famously wrote in “A Room of One’s Own” that “it is necessary to have 500 a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry.”
Writers have worked in all kinds of places, from garrets and sheds to boarding houses, bathrooms, and even while on the move.
What is it that fascinates us about the writer’s room? This book takes readers inside literature’s creative spaces to explore this tantalizing question.
Authors: Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson
We often think that a college degree will open doors to opportunity regardless of one’s background or upbringing. In this eye-opening book, two of today’s leading economists argue that higher education alone cannot overcome the lasting effects of inequality that continue to plague us, and offer sensible solutions for building a more just and equitable society.
Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson document the starkly different educational and social environments in which children of different races and economic backgrounds grow up, and explain why social equity requires sustained efforts to provide the broadest possible access to high-quality early childhood and K–12 education.
They dismiss panaceas like eliminating college tuition and replacing the classroom experience with online education.
