I’m still waiting to hear back from Sidwell Friends School after interviewing for a position there in the year 2000.
I coulda taught the Obama girls…
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An interesting look at how federal cuts are affecting higher education in Pennsylvania, as well as disparities in HBCUs:
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I recently took a free course my uni offered to help one get work and/or find a graduate school. They stressed creating a resume that an AI could read. I couldn’t get the system to understand mine without falsifying the data.
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I was at my local farmer’s market recently, and walking out I noticed a Tesla that had a PragerU bumper sticker on it… I flipped it off and loudly complained about christian nationalists… 
PragerU fucking sucks.
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Jesus christ…
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That’s fascinating.
FTA:
English is one of the most difficult languages to learn to read and write. Unlike Spanish or Welsh, where letters have consistent sound values, English is a patchwork of linguistic inheritances. Its roughly 44 phonemes – the distinct sounds that make up speech – can each be spelt multiple ways. The long “i” sound alone, as in “eye”, has more than 20 possible spellings.
My son has dyslexia, and has referred to English as “a dyslexic’s nightmare”.
He was taught to remember every word’s shape, as though he was learning to read Chinese. Luckily he has an excellent memory.
I can easily imagine who they were trying to help. I guess the answer they found is “the language itself is where the problem is located.”
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Interesting. For me, English always was the easiest language to learn (or try to learn). And it’s my second language.
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If Indiana does something regarding education, that means it’s wrong and the correct way is to do the opposite:
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JFC, this shit makes me want to burn it all down…
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yep, anecdotally, I know of two who went from Northern states to teach in Texas and have hightailed it back, one in Texas (after 2 years) and one in Alabama (after 3 years).
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