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mballantyne on June 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Who Gets to Graduate?

An academic paper summarizing studies on the effect of attitude interventions like those discussed in the OP:

https://labs.la.utexas.edu/adrg/files/2013/12/REVIEW-OF-EDUC...

Positive feelings of belonging and capability seem to be a surprisingly powerful form of race and class based privilege.

205guy on June 6, 2014 [–]

It's not just "like" the OP, that IS the academic paper by the psychology professor in the article about the work mentioned in the article.

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