#School

ThreadWhen schools close for prolonged periods, children are deprived of learning experiences during sensitive periods of development. Sensitive periods are developmental windows of heightened sensitivity to environmental stimuli, during wh
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ThreadIf you’re a white person in America, chances are good you know someone who thinks the way this person does. Maybe you went to high school with them. Maybe you’re
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Ebonics should be offered as an African Diaspora language for high school and college language credit/ for requirements send tweet Interesting the responses to this lolStep 1: educate yourself about
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"Climbing Lightly Through Forests" is out!https://www.amazon.com/Climbing-Lightly-Through-Forests-Anthology/dp/1619761971It's a tribute anthology in honor of Ursula K. LeGuin, and the poems are by an incredible collection of s
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Let’s talk about working ridiculous numbers of hours a week in grad school. First, don’t do it. You will burn out. You won’t succeed if you burn out. Most of
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One of the things that I've had to confront about myself in adulthood is that a lot of what was labeled as "intelligence" and being a "good student" in school
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My Mom is 1 of 6 kids. I am 1 of 19 grandkids.I was the 1st to leave a small town, go to college, get a well paying tech job,
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We appreciate the hard work being done by #bced stakeholders to accelerate the timeline so that families will know sooner what fall could look like. We are, however, concerned to
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I've been a hearing a lot about how children are more infectious *now* & contribute to transmission because of the B117 variant, but didn't before. This is a myth. Children
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Gerald Ford was a D1 football player who won national titles TWICE. He turned down going pro to go to law school.https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1348749195407196164 I mean come on PS fuck Teddy Roosevelt
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I've been seeing more “don’t California my Texas” sentiment lately and I have thoughts. as a born and raised Texan (houstonian!) who went to school in Austin (hook ‘em!), lived
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I used to be a high school English teacher and curriculum developer. I'm going to try to offer a little nuance to this conversation about teaching classics.When used well, classics
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It’s #gradschool recruitment season. A mini-thread because my dog woke me up!STOPASKINGAPPLICANTS TOEXPLAINTHEIRLOWUNDERGRAD GPA. There’s no need for students to relive their bad/unfortunate/traumatic life experiences that impacted thei
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Junk-rated Chicago Public Schools seeing price talk around 140bps spread for $560m bond deal selling tmrw. That's about same it saw last time it came to market Sept. 2019, also
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It is hard to overstate what a catastrophic failure the Govt & SAGE’s policy of continual restrictions & lockdown has been.Not only has it caused economic devastation & misery for
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reading a Oregon Land Use Board decision where they reference a project as a "recreational trail". Carfree paths shd never be referenced this way. It diminishes value. We don't categorize
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