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another way of ranking colleges

Moving away from the standard ratings.

the NY TImes tool

 

 

rejecting a rejection

A performance of the infamous letter to Harvard.

 

rejecting a rejection

A performance of the infamous letter to Harvard.

 

timothy snyder on the making of modern ukraine

Timothy Snyder is a history professor at Yale specializing in Eastern European history as well as how authoritarian rule takes hold and democracies fail.  His pre-DJT books and columns warning that democracy could easily vanish in the US have been on the mark to a frightening extent. Yale has the videos of his course on how modern Ukraine came to be.  Several people have said they're outstanding and shed a lot of light on current geopolitics.  I plan on diving in.

hat tips to David, Anders, Benôit, Vint and Harold

 

 

ah grad school

Alex sent this stream on "your most unhinged story from grad school"...  it's on Twitter, but should be readable for non-Twitter users.  Many excellent replies.  One of my favorites:

Taking explanted heart from surgery up to the lab, wrapped in foil. The elevator lurches, and I and another passenger holding her lunch (also wrapped in foil) got jostled. We both dropped what we were holding. Dear reader, she walked out of that elevator with my heart chunks.

 

 

let's kill science education

A revived next move of the right.. and now they have a sympathetic court to deal with test cases that favor mythology over science.

 

 

 

the ncaa and the olympics

Title IX women's sports have made America the destination for elite athletes around the world.  

A friend from Canada is a prime example .. she's been to two Olympics and is aiming at Paris.  She also had a 4.0 with a biochem major.

 

 

 

 

 

 

homeschooled and illiterate

When homeschooling serves a purpose other than a proper education. From about ten years ago, but there are signs it's more widespread now.

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At the time, Garrison was taking parenting advice from Quiverfull leaders who deemphasized academic achievement in favor of family values. She remembers one Quiverfull leader saying, “If they can do mathematics perfectly but they have no morals, you have failed them.”

The implication, she says, was that, “if they’re not doing so well academically, well, then they can catch up on that later. It’s not such a big deal. It was a really convenient way of thinking for me because I wasn’t able to keep up anyway.” This kind of rhetoric, Garrison notes, provided a “high-minded justification for educational neglect. I would not have gotten away with that if I’d had to get my kids tested every year.”

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a tip of the hat to Sukie

 

the florida war on education

A propose bill would pretty much destroy their universities and the value of degrees from them.

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In addition, It would also require that all general education courses must promote “the values necessary to preserve the constitutional republic” through “traditional, historically accurate” coursework; and would ban courses in general education curricula “based on unproven, theoretical, or exploratory content,” as defined by political appointees.

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It would certainly ban all of science.  Of course this would also ban religious studies - things like the Bible and Book of Mormon.

a tip of the hat to Jim

 

 

 

 

 

speaking of white christian nationlism

Ron DeSantis is making them very happy as he proposes to become a dictator.