Anthony Jack to present MLK/Common Reading keynote tonight

Harvard scholar Anthony Jack will present “The Privileged Poor: How Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students” this evening at 6 p.m. The talk, hosted as a collaborative event by the MLK and Common Reading programs, is the second of three keynote events to promote discussion of ideas related to this year’s Common Reading Born a Crime.

Jack’s research has earned numerous awards and has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The National Review, NPR and other media outlets. The Washington Post heralded his 2019 book The Privileged Poor as breaking “new ground on social and educational questions of great import.”

Register for this talk at https://wsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aSQVvGbKQ-GCxnXssVIWVA.

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