#Students

I am so fucking frustrated with teaching right now.A colleague of mine today came up with a good analogy... You're a barber. Your boss has reopened your shop. You have
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As you all know, September isn't far away. Meaning, it's that time of the year where we get a lot of questions about Welcome Week and Freshers...Your Students' Union is
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ok so I wanna talk about how telling people to 'go see a therapist' is not always a perfect solution(thread, from my own experiences). If I am wrong about any
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Thesis: the average 18 year old student in, say, York in AD 800 (the middle of the so-called "Dark Ages") had read more, knew more languages, was better trained in
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Random bit of trivial: in Cambridge one sometimes goes "punting". On the "backs" (of the colleges) is a bit tame. Adventurous students often go up the rollers of towards Grantchester.Even
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OK, KIDS. Gather around. One of my PhD students, the one who is closest to finishing her doctoral dissertation, is assembling her 3 papers-style dissertation. As such, she is writing
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I think what my colleague at NYU's Stern School means to say is that the future of college LABOR is cheaper. This will not necessarily translate into tuition savings for
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Let those who throw the first stone be the first to call for compassion Literally anyone who isn’t shouting anti-CCP slogans all day are suspected of being tied to United
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The Leaving Certificate examination is a broken system & is a myth of meritocracy. HEA found students from the most affluent areas accounted for 32% of those scoring 555-600 points
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You wonder where the rage comes from in students of color? The resistance, defiance, bravado, swag, confidence, the shine in our eyes? (Thread) ... it is from generations of being
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A student and an admin of AKHSS, SeenLasht Chitral have been tested positive for coronavirus, after the random testing conducted in school by the government. Administration isn't serious about this
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Imagine being first-gen to college, getting a PhD, earning grad GPA /MCAT scores above avg applicant, teaching hundreds of pre-meds & reforming education...but med schools still holding the grades you
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It’s funny… not “haha” funny, but the other kind… to watch cheerleaders for cyber charters try to glom on to the work being done by fully certificated and experienced public
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I'm glad that some colleges & universities are responding to needs; however... Not all places will have the resources to add extra support Some students will have their concerns addressed
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The feedback we're getting from educators who are also CPS parents is...a lot. COVID kills, and we fought hard for their safety, and the safety of their students, in not
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A THREAD -on how AUC is passive about cases of sexual harassment including those about #ABZ, who previously attended. The institutions responsible for having him as a student are being
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