Alexandria Walton Radford

Alexandria Walton Radford is an associate program director for postsecondary education at the nonprofit research institute RTI International. She is the author of Top Student, Top School? How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College.

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'No Point in Applying': Why Poor Students Are Missing at Top Colleges

High-achieving low-income students too often don't know that they have a good chance of getting into--and affording--an elite school.
- Alexandria Walton Radford
- September 16, 2013