Preparing for college and learning to navigate the college application maze can be challenging. Students need to start early to build a strong college profile by focusing on key elements such as cou…
Giving families tangible tools for them to achieve their goals
The price of college is shocking and becoming increasingly so. Just trying to understand it almost requires an accounting degree. Families coming from disadvantaged backgrounds are especially bamboo…
Parental engagement: An often-forgotten strategy to increasing school success
Family engagement in education continues to be underutilized as a strategy to increase academic performance of children and the success of their schools. At Inversant, we seek to narrow the educatio…
Why is college tuition rising and how can we curb it?
Working closely with parents of high school students who are preparing and saving for college, we at Inversant are interested in better understanding how our higher education system works. Why is …
Sara Goldrick- Rab calls for blowing the whole thing up!
At Inversant, we were fortunate to have Professor Sara Goldrick- Rab as our first guest to our new podcast project. Sara is an activist scholar working to identify novel approaches to mak…
Series 1: College (un)affordability, Student Debt, and Solutions
What is the real price of college and why is it so hard to figure out? Professor Goldrick-Rab and Bob Hildreth discuss why college is so expensive and how financial aid is n…