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The Frugal Physician

FrugalPhysician

The #studentloancrisis is a problem. But just forgiving some debt may help some now but may make things worse for future borrowers bc it doesn't address the root of the

James Surowiecki

JamesSurowiecki

1. Progressives get understandably annoyed when ppl arguing that ordinary Americans are really well-off use mean income numbers rather than the median, since rich people's incomes skew the mean upward.

Sarah Brown

Brown_e_Points

Just moderated a roundtable of campus finance experts about building a student-centered institution amid the pandemic. There'll be a transcript! But here’s what struck me: 1. The sheer scale of

Alexis Goldstein

alexisgoldstein

Congress gave the Education Department the authority to #CancelStudentDebt in the HEA. @ewarren wanted to use it to cancel $50KTrump/DeVos used this authority, narrowly: to temporarily cancel interest There’s bipartisan

Venessa Wong

venessawong

An entire generation of people got student loans to improve their lives. Then the pandemic happened. It's shown that the margin for error for these young adults had was slim

Irene Zhang

schemeprincess

To any undergrads that need to hear this: 1) you do not have to go to grad school immediately after undergrad, 2) you do not have to have a publication

Andy Schwen

mrschwen

For those interested in standards based grading for their classroom, I'd like to give an example of how to grade student work. I'm sharing an image of a math student

georgia

_georgiamooney_

For so many students, going home is not an option right now. But being at uni isn’t an option either. We need support, we need a safe environment we can

Jack Bailey

PoliSciJack

Not spoken up until now, but I was in charge of organising and managing the Germaine Greer event at Cardiff University in 2015.I can assure everyone that it most definitely

hannah anderson

sometimesalight

I imagine there are lots of legitimate reasons to oppose student loan forgiveness, but "I worked hard to pay mine off so you should too b/c if you don't what's

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

You see how free-floating various ideological descriptors are in the knowledge that this has become a standard critique of Biden in "socialist" media.https://twitter.com/micahuetricht/status/1342152386786320384 I'm for a modes

Sahil Aggarwal

SahilAgg92

What is the right number of students a teacher can teach?Student-Teacher Ratio (STR, also called pupil-teacher ratio) has been an important criterion to determine the quality of teaching. Rightly so

Fleck

ResurectedFleck

Story Thread: This might dox me but I figured I'd tell it since its relevant to what's going on right now. Where I live in Chicago is notorious for being

Consequence is no coincidence

BlueSteelDC

It is a really dangerous precedent to be asking a President to do an end run around Congressional authorities. Even to articulate that is what you want done.https://twitter.com/Ilhan/status/1362406605782978562 A lot

April

april_anita

So this student loan debt forgiveness? I welcome it with open arms. I ended up over $100K in debt. I've paid off about 60K but am taking my time thanks

Annie Asgard (Anahita Asgharzadeh)

AnahitaTchr

That's great. This is just my view but I have spoken to others & they agree. Once you get your list of students, check all their names.Any you are unsure

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