Anne Kim

Anne Kim writes about education, workforce and social policy. She is a contributing editor at Washington Monthly magazine and the author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor (The New Press) and Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection (The New Press), winner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. A veteran of the Progressive Policy Institute, Third Way and other District of Columbia think tanks and of Capitol Hill, her work has appeared in The Washington PostNewsweekThe Atlantic and numerous other national publications. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a law degree from Duke University.

Work by Anne Kim

How to Fix Higher Education’s Remedial-Education Problem

This piece originally appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Fifteen years ago, a broad coalition of foundations, nonprofits, and educators launched a…

Getting College Remediation Reform to the Finish Line

This piece originally appeared in Washington Monthly. When Jabrielle Jones enrolled at rural Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon, in 2019…

Incomplete: The Unfinished Revolution in College Remedial Education

Reforms around college remediation programs, or developmental education, have stalled, leaving many underserved students stuck. This report explains how to revive the “dev-ed” movement.