The Coach Effect
Against the Rules: The Big Short Companion
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Colleges today talk a big game about valuing diversity — so why are so many of them failing to retain first-generation students?
- We meet a homeless straight-A track star and her ad-hoc college application coach to look at why it’s so hard to get into college while rural, poor, and uncoached.
- We go deep with coaches and students at a non-profit called ScholarMatch, founded by novelist David Eggers, to find out just what it can take to get first-generation college students over the graduation finish line.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | The Global News Podcast from the BBC World Services. |
| 0:12.0 | What's been happening? Who's involved? Why it matters. What might happen next? |
| 0:17.0 | I think what the Global News Podcast does really well is pick stories about places that surprise people. |
| 0:24.0 | They try to overturn expectations. |
| 0:26.0 | New stories that perhaps you won't have heard anywhere else and the things to look out for in the future. |
| 0:31.0 | The Global News Podcast helps you catch up with our restless world in your own time. |
| 0:36.0 | Search for it wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:41.0 | Our last episode was about an explosion, an explosion of coaching in modern life. |
| 0:47.0 | All sorts of people are getting paid to be coaches in places that never used to have coaches. |
| 0:54.0 | Big corporations, Wall Street trading floors, fire stations. |
| 0:59.0 | People are declaring themselves coaches not just of skills but of states of mind and getting paid to do it. |
| 1:07.0 | So it's now more noticeable when you come across situations that cry out for a coach and no coaches around. |
| 1:13.0 | When total amateurs who don't think of themselves as coaches are forced to coach for free because no one's doing it for money. |
| 1:25.0 | Like this woman. |
| 1:26.0 | I am Marissa Baradaran, author of several books and articles on banking and inequality, racial wealth gap, etc. |
| 1:36.0 | Marissa came to the United States from Iran as a child. |
| 1:39.0 | Her family were political refugees. |
| 1:42.0 | She's now a professor at the UC Irvine Law School but it's not her job that matters here. |
| 1:47.0 | Marissa's brother-in-law is the sheriff of a small town east of Los Angeles. |
| 1:52.0 | He called her one day to say he'd taken in a high school student. |
| 1:56.0 | She was his son's classmate and track teammate and she was homeless. |
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