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Karen Gross

Karen Gross is an author and educator specializing in student success and the impact of trauma on psychosocial development. A former college president and U.S. Education Department policy adviser, her most recent book is "Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the School Door: Strategies and Solutions for Educators PreK—College."

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Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Teachers had ideas for improving education after the pandemic. We failed to listen

Avatar photo by Karen Gross October 28, 2024October 25, 2024

Dialogue between a teacher and an administrator as school opens in 2024: Teacher: There is mold in my classroom; it is on the whiteboard and on the ceiling tiles. We need to do something about this. You know I have health issues. This is unhealthy for me and my students. Administrator: We’ll take care of […]

Posted inNews

OPINION: ‘For our many Black and Brown children, the threats to their physical safety now and into the future are eating away at their insides’

Avatar photo by Karen Gross June 22, 2020June 21, 2020
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

What we’re getting wrong about campus protests

Avatar photo by Karen Gross December 1, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School, Opinion

How Duncan increased education access for poor students

Avatar photo by Karen Gross October 5, 2015March 30, 2020
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Why most first-generation college students will attend ‘second-tier’ schools

Avatar photo by Karen Gross May 28, 2015April 8, 2021
Tristan Wright-Crishon works in a music technology lab at Queensborough Community College.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Free community college could cost more than we think

Avatar photo by Karen Gross March 5, 2015April 8, 2021
(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brock Jones, 128th MPAD)
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Student Veterans

Ten ways to make college more friendly to veterans

Avatar photo by Karen Gross March 31, 2014April 8, 2021
Karen Gross
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

The flawed conversation on the cost of U.S. higher education

Avatar photo by Karen Gross March 18, 2014April 8, 2021
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