“In October 2025, both her SSI and Medicare benefits were halted, and she was told her immigration status was under review. Although Rakestraw was born in the U.S. and has never once traveled or lived outside the country, federal officials still raised questions about her legal status.”🤬

Random data question. In CO I have data with an ACT high school code. I want to link this to NCES to say something about the high school they attend. ACT won't give us a crosswalk. Anyone have access to something like this? Thoughts?

Our second Rental Ripoff Hearing is TONIGHT in Queens. Be like Julianna — don’t miss your chance to have your voice heard.   Couldn’t make Brooklyn or Queens? Sign up for an upcoming hearing at rentalripoffs.nyc.gov — any New Yorker can attend any borough’s hearing.

The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Just to put some numbers on that.

When rich schools trumpet more generous financial aid policies, as Harvard did just now, these are the sentences I seize on: "Just over half of Harvard’s undergrads receive financial aid,." That means 45% or so can afford $83k per year. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

This is satire ... right? right?!

Is the college selection and application process one of reciprocal choice?

Leonhardt, NYT of Ivy+ students: "produce cutting-edge scientific research that will cure diseases and accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy. The students can found nonprofit groups and companies that benefit all of society." The students: I want $$$$$

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that. Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

So many bloodbaths in admissions... I'm surprised we still have a upcoming generation

Please attend if you can. There's a lot to talk about beyond what I covered in the First Look, and I'd love to hear what's on people's minds about the outcomes and how we analyzed it. Tuesday at 3:30 ET. And appreciate a share of this post!

"The things that will DESTROY US are: POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLES; PLEASURE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE; WEALTH WITHOUT WORK; knowledge without character; BUSINESS WITHOUT MORALITY; SCIENCE WITHOUT HUMANITY; and worship without sacrifice." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

SAT fans when UCSD releases a report on math placement

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Hypothetical. Fifth. Graders.

Test Scores Tell You Who Your Child Beat, Not What Your Child Knows I've spent 30 years in standardized testing. I couldn't make sense of my own kids' score reports. New research blames parents for trusting grades over tests. Wrong diagnosis. Here's the real problem and the fix.

It TL;DR not TL:DR #SATtips #grammarnerd

Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice. Read my full statement:

This aged well. Note the author.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

If the economist put some colleges in the "all good-quality colleges" why don't they just call the other ones "shitty colleges" #yourbiasesareshowing

The people at the DMV belive that we remember the colleges we applied to... that says some things about college that are worth exploring

We are living through a period where we have mass government layoffs literally causing countless deaths while at the same time DHS has so much money that Noem will have a different luxury jet for every day of the week

The biggest effects? Not in cities — but in rural counties with: ⬆️ More Black residents 💸 Lower incomes ⚪ Stronger racial animus Academies made segregation affordable for families who couldn’t move or pay for elite private schools. 7/12

The student attended a "segregation academy," an all-white private school established in the 1950s, 60s, or 70s to maintain school segregation. We know little about how these schools, called "the most important form of local resistance", affected public schools and students. 2/12

I'm making it internet official that I'm going to stop playing an academic online and go get a degree!

Check this out

This is the swamp in which we work. To pretend that these men are exceptional mistakes the deep misogyny & racism built into American higher ed. These same men have fashioned themselves as heterodox thinkers against the world of woke but this is who they really are. www.chronicle.com/article/unma...

If i was a UMich student I would feel deeply embarrassed that a student wrote this... so much wannabeism in one headline

2 colleges, 2 approaches to handling a percieved math problem. one that seems student centered and solution, one that seems ... blame oriented and prestige seeking #UCSD #math #SUNY sunyorange.edu/news/pr2026-... www.justequations.org/resource/rem...

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In a 5-minute phone call to dispatchers, a federal immigration officer requests police backup last October to help with a kid tailing him on a motorized bicycle. "I need someone here now, or else I'm going to have to shoot this kid," the officer said on a recording of the call obtained by OPB.

Opinion | Assessment is no longer merely a tool for evaluating learning. It is becoming an infrastructure that reshapes what learning is allowed to be. https://chroni.cl/4kRNwsd

lol.. is University of Edinburgh distancing itself from this study because it fears the Macho T-Rex stans?

"Why are we asking the people with the least power to figure out something? Don't ask these boys. Ask the people who can show up." Thank you, Cortez Watson Jr. of the Black Star Project, for setting me straight. @wbez.org @opencampus.org #college #chicago www.wbez.org/education/20...

FT: “.. Wherever you look in financial markets, you see signs that global investors are going out of their way to avoid Donald Trump’s America.” @financialtimes.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/cfdc...

THERE’S POWER IN BOYCOTTING!

this is worth reading. More important than the assessement of AI is the analysis of higher ed "Higher education produces two things at once: the learning product (the transformation of the student...), and the credential product (the public signal...)." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

lol CRAZY timing on this

This story has been buried. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good to see journalists scrutinizing “The Edge Network,” an intellectual circle of academic men who think that women are inherently inferior to men. (and great interview by @laurenaulet.bsky.social) 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

This guy gets it.

Trump Invites Caucasian Half Of Alysa Liu To Visit White House

"Their study, published in Patterns, found that detectors misclassified more than half of TOEFL essays written by nonnative speakers as AI-generated, while nearly all essays by native speakers passed." www.chronicle.com/article/ai-d...

Here’s the 60 Minutes report on “white genocide” in South Africa. It demonstrates it’s a lie, shows what’s really happening, debunks the specific claims made by Trump and ends with an Afrikaner saying it’s racist for the US to welcome his people rather than genuine refugees from around the world.

U.S. Tourists Advised To Temporarily Avoid Shootouts With Mexican Drug Cartels https://theonion.com/u-s-tourists-advised-to-temporarily-avoid-shootouts-with-mexican-drug-cartels/

Exhibit A: The tangled web of corporate ed reform from Elena Aydarova.

Aren’t we lucky that universities haven’t gotten carried away with the hype and taken a careful approach to AI? Imagine if they had decided to push AI into our teaching and work life! All praise to our leaders in higher ed for not falling for hype, hallelujah and praise the goddess