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Claire Harrington, Minding The Campus America’s elite universities had systematically prioritized race over merit in admissions. That’s why reform is necessary.

Children whose caretakers are detained or deported face not only the loss of their loved ones, but, oftentimes, removal from their homes and schools — abrupt upheavals that can land them in one of many places.  Some, freshly pressed passports in hand, end up in their parents’ country of origin — even when it’s not their own. Others are sent to live with family or friends while an unlucky number are placed in foster care, their parents’ rights in jeopardy and reunification precarious.  The teenagers among them are sometimes thrust into a parenting role themselves: This overnight push into adulthood…

Key points: I’ve been a principal for 14 years, during which time I served as the leader of an alternative school, an early college, and a large middle school. Through it all I’ve seen firsthand just how anxious families get during school transitions at every stage of the game. The move from elementary to middle is scary enough, but the parents of rising sixth graders often imagine the worst and need a bridge to help steady the transition. This year I took over as principal of McDowell High School. With about 1,400 students, it’s much larger than the district’s middle…

Of the 18 most popular fields included in the report, return on investment is highest for Pharm.D. graduates, who see an average 114 percent earnings boost. On average, going to graduate school increases a student’s lifetime earnings by 17 percent. But that return on investment varies significantly depending on what they studied, according to new research published by the Postsecondary Education & Economics Research Center at American University. Graduate school has become more popular over the past several decades. In 1993, 31 percent of bachelor’s degree holders aged 35 to 39 also had a graduate degree. As of 2022, that share had risen…

From Yale pro­fes­sor Paul North comes a chap­ter-by-chap­ter study of Karl Marx’s Cap­i­tal: Cri­tique of Polit­i­cal Econ­o­my, Vol­ume 1. Accord­ing to the descrip­tion that accom­pa­nies the course on YouTube, this “book from 1872 is still the best guide to the preda­to­ry eco­nom­ic and social sys­tem with­in which we live. The book solves five basic mys­ter­ies in our social world. The mys­ter­ies are: why social class­es strug­gle against one anoth­er, why human beings are in the thrall of things, how a quan­ti­ty of mon­ey turns into more mon­ey with­out seem­ing to add any­thing, why some peo­ple are forced to work and…

David DeMatthews, Chronicle of Higher Education Faculty disengagement is reshaping campus life, one closed door at a time.

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Robert Pondiscio, The Dispatch The classroom is where we learn how to behave in other shared spaces. What happens when it collapses?

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I forget where I first saw it, but the idea of a complexity curve stuck with me. Briefly, it’s a description of how someone understands a complicated thing as their knowledge increases. They move from simplistic to complex and then back to a form of simple. The canonical example is the U.S. Civil War. A simplistic understanding says it was about slavery. A more complicated understanding involves conflicts between industrial and agricultural modes of production, different understandings of states’ rights as against the federal government, slavery, and the relevance of honor culture. A fuller understanding comes back to slavery as…