#Students

HI all. Help please, if you can. I've had a DM from a secondary SL. 'I wanted to ask your opinion on what you think schools should do currently where
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New this morning: an ambitious data collection effort by @ProfEmilyOster and @AASAHQ is underway and early results aren't showing widespread outbreaks at in-person schools. @anya1anya and I report their findings
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Gather 'round, children. We need to have a conversation about confidence in graduate school. I've been a graduate student basically forever, and younger PhD/MA/MS students often ask me how I
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Yesterday, we received confirmation that students and recent graduates are not currently eligible for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit. This morning, I sent an updated email to federal ministers asking
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I'm attending a session on teaching and curriculum design to support mental wellbeing at Deakin. There are over 80 people also in the session. It's great to see so many
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If I were Taiwan, Korea Vietnam, or Japan: I'd be six months into a plan of poaching groups or faculty and admin* from US/UK/Aus universities popular w/ intl students, getting
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The movement to #KeepSchoolsOpen seems positive on the surface, and like one we should all be aligned with, but upon further inspection we find a startling trend of silencing BIPOC
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I don’t think it’s fair that professors can surprise students with additional fees for a class they’ve already signed up for. also, I don’t appreciate being poor shamed by our
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(cw: sexual assault) No one every taught me about consent. When my mom gave me the talk, she didnt mention consent. When I took the month long class in 5th
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I just wanna speak on the experience of being a student and an essential worker during this unprecedented time we’re currently living in real quick (1/19). First of all, I
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I'm going to say something very difficult... We cannot forget this moment And many of us need to live in that discomfort That some friends, acquaintances, and family members gave
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The President of @Princeton, Christopher L. Eisgruber, has condemned this piece of writing by their professor, Joseph Katz, & the administration is apparently "looking into the matter further"https://twitter.com/JohnHMcWhorter
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It took a Freedom of Information request for students @TeensTakeCharge to get racial data on students applying to *screened* *public* schools in NYC. Here's a quick summary of what they
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THREAD: States are opening up as if the danger has passed. It hasn't. It feels like we are all tacitly accepting the GOP's calculation of "acceptable loss". We've moved from
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Can someone tell @Diddy to stay in his place? He’s not the spokesperson for Black Folks. This the same BS they did 4 years ago for trump to win, getting
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While arguably "better than nothing" one aspect of this arrangement that I haven't seen reported is how this administration has been outsourcing govt duties to companies owned by Mexico's second
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