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It'd be one thing if people were talking about student loan forgiveness through gritted teeth: "This is really, truly crappy way to accomplish our broader goals, but we have to
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@divestucla is demanding that @UCLA honor the lives and futures of Black peoples—and all peoples—through withdrawal of affiliation with and resources to the #LAPD and #UCPD. Only through the breaking
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The Dem student loan forgiveness scheme would turn higher education into an even worse example of Chumponomics: a system that relies on chumps who pay full freight to subsidize those
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#AcademicTwitter This summer, I taught a 3-week long online Intro Geology course to ~30 students. Here are 10 things that I learned: 1. Many of my students assumed that online
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A thread in response to something in the keynote Q&A @audreywatters gave today at #digped. She pointed out that behaviorists might draw the line in training rat->baby->student. As if it's
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This time last year, I finally got diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. Prior to diagnosis, I had been suffering for over a year. Things got really bad last fall when I started
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I've been out of college for 10 years, and still have $10,600 in federal loans, so $10K debt forgiveness would be weirdly perfect and put an extra $500 a month
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Do people recognize that there are manuscripts of 940 Mushaf's (Hard-Copy Qur'an) from the Sana'a Mosque (the place where the Sana'a Palimpsest is found? They're all identical to each other.....
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1/ In case you are worried about rampant cancel culture on campus, here is HEQCO's report on freedom of speech on Ontario campuses for the period August 1 2019 to
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PhDs and coronavirus, a sort of thread As a PhD student, I’ve had a pretty terrible few months.I’ve been saying this a lot to myself recently, but I feel
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On Friday the govt announced its plan to radically change uni fees, and the headlines rightfully focussed on those 110% hikes to humanities degrees.But now the full plan is out
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Lots of folks misread this op-ed (research cited in @washingtonpost & @latimes editorials too).This isn't about how we distribute $$ when we #cancelstudentdebt.It is about *the value* we assign to
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I think A-level algorithm by design makes it impossible for any individual student to get A* grade if attend institution where predecessor students 2017-19 did not score A*. Being best
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pls read this very important thread!!!!!https://twitter.com/omarsrashad/status/1286368007929786368 i have the privilege to be attending @sacstate to get my journalism degree. i’m proud that i will be graduating from here in spring
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THREAD: So, I'm assigning parts to my 9th graders for Book 1 of The Iliad. "Who wants to be Calchas? He's a prophet who always has bad news. Agamemnon doesn't
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Why could the A-level algorithm never work (THREAD)The Algorithm that was used essentially tried to calculate the expected number of A*, A, B and so on grades within each school,
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