Systems of education and its discontents

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He wants to dox others, not get doxed himself. Hoisted by his own petard.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/29/doj-george-mason-investigation-faculty-resolution/

Apparently, the Faculty Senate dared to praise GMU President Gregory Washington, and the Trump administration can’t have that.

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Archive link:
https://archive.ph/lgNZ0

The Justice Department letter singled out a line from the resolution — which was stated as a fact, not as a policy supported by the faculty — that referred to a 2022 university goal to achieve “faculty and staff demographics that mirror student demographics.”

The phonecall may have come from inside the house, though.

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That sounds like a great way to address the fact that, depending on the metric used, OK ranks 48th-50th in education. They are certainly protecting the kids from education!

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Even Indiana figured out that they needed to attract young adult workers from other states who had been educated to a functional level, because their own state educational system was turning out people who were functionally illiterate and who didn’t understand basics like showing up on time and being not drunk or stoned at work.

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I’d love for all large state schools to join in…

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This is what can move the mountain. Most of these are in red states. Most of the majors are practical and career-focused. The administration can’t level the usual elitist barbs at them. And boy-howdy, if you went to a Big Ten school, it is the core of your identity for life.

It’s like trying to start a land war in Asia. Ain’t gonna work.

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the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

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I’m amazed that they’re projecting only 30-40%

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I learned a lot from reading the Mrs Piggle-Wiggle series of books as a child. A common motif was that she would allow a child to do exactly what they said they wanted, as much as they wanted, until they realized that it wasn’t as much fun as they’d imagined (eating candy instead of nutritious food, playing by themself instead of going off to school with all the other kids in the neighborhood, etc.).

In this real-world case, students dove in, thought it was great at first, and are now realizing it’s not working out for them the way they had imagined. That’s a good learning experience.

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Perfect!

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Has anyone noticed that Youtube removes comments which try to address misinformation?

I know it removes comments which contain links, which makes it hard to reference good sources.

But it removes a lot of other posts which try to explain anything.

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