U.S. President Joe Biden is set to give a commencement address this Sunday at Morehouse, a historically Black college in Atlanta that counts Dr. Martin Luther King among its graduates. But the president’s coming speech has sparked consternation from the graduating class. Some students see Biden using Morehouse as a political tool for Black votes in an election year, and others are considering ways to protest his Middle East policies without overshadowing the celebration for their families. NPR has more.
#College professors are facing the same challenges we see at the secondary level: students who struggle with #reading, writing, and completing homework. It explores the reasons behind these trends, dives into relevant research, and showcases how some professors are adapting their teaching methods in response.
The article is free, but you may have to create an account to read it. #education
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Interesting note at the end about "Index Funds":
If the college is invested in an Index Fund that includes companies that do business with #Israel, they can't simply exclude the undesirable companies. They would have to sell the ENTIRE Index Fund."
Whos ready for something new? Who here wants to experience the greatness of senses that are not normally talked about? Who here wants to enlighten themselves to a new way of life? a way where loving and being loved is different? If so, #boost and favorite this post. If you want to know what this is about, DM me. #College, #CollegeProject, #Love, #Romance.
I've been drawing strips for years about attacks on students' right to protest, yet strangely I've never been invited to give a TED Talk, speak at an "ideas festival," or pen a column for the Atlantic.
@jensorensen This is a perfect example of how power and money can silence marginalized voices. When those with privilege feel threatened, they'll stop at nothing to suppress dissent.
In the late ‘60s, to right-wing activists, communists were over-running #college campuses and #university administrators needed to be subpoenaed and law enforcement sent in to forcibly end protests.
In 2024, to right-wing activists, antisemites are over-running college campuses and university administrators need to be subpoenaed and law enforcement sent in to forcibly end protests.
"The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for many important causes over the years, and their right to protest is sacrosanct. In this case, however, we must arrest and slander them.
“We will not look back and regret this decision. Although we were wrong about not admitting women, abolitioning racial quotas, US involvement in Vietnam, and divesting from apartheid South Africa, we are confident that this time is different."
@jonoabroad I kinda wish I could scrub it of personal info and post it here. But that would be massively unprofessional of me and I will not do it for that reason. But effin hell.
I firmly believe that living in a college town helps keep you feeling young.
I have the windows open tonight. It's the first pleasant weekend evening of the spring, and I hear groups of the kids laughing and talking, on their way to various house parties. It makes the years just kind of fall away, and that's a great feeling.
Turned off music and am trying to buckle down for a study session. Can I just say, this new #college world of often only having a digital option for a textbook, is AWFUL. It's SO bad for neurodivergent folks.
My textbook is only readable in an app. I can't easily take notes from it. I can't make my usual process of tabs and sticky notes. I can't bounce around the book as I reference things.
It's a wildly negative experience for my brain, inspiring so much resistance to learning the material.
@MsHearthWitch@hollie yes! 👏🏻 That fits. Uses multiple senses. Apparently there are studies showing handwriting activates the brain differently than typing or something. And that it's more memorable.
@dyani@hollie I believe that. My first go-round thru uni I would take really good notes during lectures and then just... never have to look at them again and flew through my courses with straight As.
The act of writing it down while listening to the lecture was enough for me to internalize the concepts.
ECOLE DESERTE EN LOIRE ATLANTIQUE
Les parents d'élèves se mobilisent contre le "choc des savoirs" décidé par Gabriel Attal. Le 28 mars ne mettons pas nos enfants au collège. #ecole#lycée #collège#chocdessavoirs
I'm not saying its a bad thing. As a #Blind#College student, I'll be joining the 7% of blind people who graduate College with a 4 year Batchlor's degree. This isn't a small deal at all and yet when I think about it, I can't help but to feel nervous because I didn't exactly have a plan after, and that sucks because I'm afraid that I'm going to have problems not killing my mom's Credit because of student loan payments that I'm going to have to make, and you know those loan companies won't be nice about it. I just wish there was someone out there who could tell me what its going to be like so that I can not feel the overwhelming fear that I do now, but there is no magic faerie to help me through this, nobody in my family who can really fully understand except my Dad who's excited about this and can't really understand that I'm just absolutely scared out of my mind even though I'm trying not to be scared damn it. I love my Dad though, and I'll not hear anything bad about him. Without him, I would have never been able to go to College much less graduate high school. Still, it doesn't mean I'm not afraid. I wish there was something I could do about this.
[#ÀlairLibre 📺] Éducation: stopper la machine à trier
Les #enseignants font #grève en #SeineSaintDenis depuis trois semaines pour un plan d’urgence et contre les groupes de niveau au #collège. Les inégalités face à l’éducation grandissent. Est-ce encore possible de soigner l’#école?
NVB a parlé d'inégalités face au droit à l'échec. C est très juste. (Tout les dispositifs qu'on va inventer pour sauver ces fainéants de riches alors que le petit rebeu placé ds le groupe faible en 6ème eh ben le pauvre il va y rester.)
Le métier de prof est devenu tellement impossible qu'il n y a plus de candidats. C est moche.
if it were up to some of these commentators, Allen Iverson, Derrick Rose, g'damn Steph Curry would have never made it in college basketball and even less in the #NBA 🤨
@blogdiva to be fair, size really has changed. No data (though surely someone has collected it?) but when Wemby (and Brook Lopez???) are bombing away from 3… it’s not the game Iverson played. He would have been fine, but I suspect a lot of shorter guys from that era would have had much shorter careers.
