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I don't think that we want a society that is based upon stratification, where there are these huge, significant differences by income and by educational level.
我认为我们的社会不应该是一个基于不同层级的社会，那样的话，收入和教育水平会存在巨大的、显著的差异。
And by the kinds of jobs that people get.
也不应该因为工作种类将人们分级。
We have to do something to address educational inequities by race and ethnicity if we hope to be a country that is fair and just, and where there is really equal opportunity for everyone.
如果我们希望有一个公平、公正的国家，并且每个人都有真正的平等机会，我们必须行动起来解决种族和族裔的教育不平等问题。
When I was six months old, my mom returned back to school and started working on her bachelor's degree.
在我6个月大的时候，我妈妈回到了学校，开始攻读她的学士学位。
It took my mom eight long years to earn her bachelor's degree.
我妈妈花了八年时间才获得学士学位。
I remember the day she graduated, I was in the third grade, and it was an incredible celebration.
我记得她毕业的那天，我还在读三年级，那是令人难忘的一天。
The beautiful thing about what happens when you are the first in your family to get a college degree is that it not only changes the trajectory of your life but the trajectory of the life of everyone in your family line who comes after you.
当你是家里第一个获得大学学位的人时，它不仅会改变你的生活轨迹，而且会改变家族后辈的生活轨迹。
It's not enough that some of us have those credentials, that some of us are able to live the American dream.
我们中的一些人拥有学位证书，一些人能够实现美国梦，但这是不够的。
Everyone should have the opportunity to determine the path that is best for him or her.
每个人都应该有机会决定最适合他或她的道路。
If you look back at the very beginning of higher education in the United States, higher education was designed to prepare young white men for the clergy primarily.
如果回顾一下美国高等教育的最初阶段，就会知道高等教育的目的主要是为年轻的白人男子准备神职人员的工作。
Over time, we have seen higher education become more diverse, but we still do see some stratification in the higher education system, which is connected to this historical legacy of exclusion.
随着时间的推移，我们看到高等教育变得更加多样化，但我们仍然看到高等教育系统的一些等级，这与这种历史遗留的排斥现象有关。
We have to acknowledge all of these different facets of the post-secondary ecosystem that have to be redesigned and rebuilt to better serve today's students, to better serve students of color.
我们必须承认中学教育后的所有这些不同方面需要重新设计和重建以更好地服务于今天的学生，更好地服务于有色人种的学生。
There are many statewide financial aid policies, for example, that are only geared toward recent high school graduates.
例如，有许多全州性的财政援助政策只面向最近的高中毕业生。
And we know that there are many, many students who have to take a break after high school who maybe are parents themselves, or who have to work full time.
而我们知道，有很多学生在高中毕业后有一段空白期，他们也许已经为人父母，或者必须做全职工作。
And so, therefore, they weren't able to enroll completely after high school.
所以，他们在高中毕业后没有能够完全入学大学。
Students of color are disproportionately represented in those groups.
有色人种的学生在这些群体中占的比例过高。
And so, one of the indirect consequences of these policies is that they have excluded Black students and African American students, Latino students, and Native American students.
因此，这些政策的间接后果之一是，它们将黑人学生和非裔美国人学生、拉丁裔学生和美国本土学生排除在外。
So we think that financial aid policies need to be revised for older students and many students who lead more complex lives.
因此，我们认为，对于年龄较大的学生和许多生活更复杂的学生来说，需要修订财政援助政策。
It's really important to acknowledge that no one person is one single thing.
没有一个人是孤立无援的，这点真的很重要。
So yes, I am an African American, but I am also a woman.
因此，我是一个非裔美国人，但我也是一个女人。
I'm also a parent.
我也是一名家长。
We have to really think about the intersectionality of all aspects of a learner's identity.
我们必须真正考虑到学习者身份的所有方面的交叉性。
The system of post-secondary education has to be redesigned to take into account the very complex and fluent lives that students live.
我们必须重新设计中学后教育系统，以照顾到学生非常复杂和流畅的生活。
We don't want a society of haves and have nots based upon who's had the opportunity to pursue and complete a post-secondary credential and who has not.
我们不希望有一个富人和穷人之分的社会，规定谁有机会追求并获得中学后的证书，谁没有这些机会。
My mom was able to get a better job.
我妈妈能够得到一份更好的工作。
She was earning a better income.
她能够赚取更多的收入。
We were able to move to a different neighborhood, but I think the most consequential outcome is that I've never for a moment in my life thought that that would not be my reality.
我们能够搬到一个不同的社区，但我认为最重要的是，在我的生活中，我从来没有一刻想过这将不是我的现实生活。
I've always known that I was going to have the opportunity to pursue my dreams and that many of those dreams would begin with my going on to college.
我一直知道，我有机会追求我的梦想，其中许多梦想将从我上大学开始就可以实现。
It's important that those of us who have had these opportunities work to make them available for everyone.
重要的是，我们拥有这些机会的人要努力使每个人都能得到这些机会。
