federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

More info about the illegal firings at the US Dept of Education have been shared by the staff union with advocates.

Notably absent is the office that will implement the “Beautiful Bill,” which will significantly increase many student loan borrowers’ payments.

Full list of affected offices below ⬇️

Educação inclusiva sendo abolida nos Estados Unidos. Lembram do risco que passamos por aqui, com ministro dizendo que crianças com deficiência "atrapalham"

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

This is a terrific paper looking at which programs are likely to fail the new earnings threshold established by the OBBA

www.american.edu/spa/peer/upl...

Sign-on letter to oppose Trump's (extortion) "compact" for higher ed institutions. actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

*Some Democrats* don't belong in office if they can't come up with better solutions than "forced medical care"

Now published @newamerica.org: newamerica.org/education-po...

Literally just a few months ago Mike Johnson just spearheaded the largest Medicaid cuts in history, four times as large as the Reagan’s Medicaid cuts

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy!
Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster.
Competence matters.

costco connection has 10x the number of readers

“You’re liberal bashing!”

Actually people are being bashed in the head right now. Do you hear how you sound?

Trump's new 'Compact' stipulates universities cannot have more than 15% international student undergrad enrollment. But my analysis shows most top universities are already well below this.

International students do not steal spots from American undergrads:
www.collegetowns.org/p/no-interna...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

“…the Trump administration is punishing the rest of the economy to the benefit of tech companies. Tariffs are making it more expensive to build or buy anything unrelated to computing, so consumers and businesses are effectively being incentivized into the AI ecosystem.”

NEW from me:

In his 2nd term, Trump has pursued the largest trade war in modern US history—with 1 glaring omission. Computer imports are almost entirely exempt from tariffs

It's a special carveout that AI companies are now reliant on for their data center buildout🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...

The tariff exemption for computers is now so large that it's shifting the entire makeup of the economy

AI industries contributed roughly 0.71% to the 3.8% pace of GDP growth in Q2, which is likely an underestimate given how official data struggles to capture investment in parts

Honest question in the outsourcing / third-party servicing space:
If a company has contracts with 10 different schools to market and recruit for nearly identical online degree programs, is there reason to worry about the company's impact or interference with competition between the programs?

Whether it's Joe Biden condemning the killing of Charlie Kirk in 2025 or Charlie Kirk calling for the killing of Joe Biden in 2024, both men have issued strong words about the other's killing.

a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"

So, what HBCU did Utah resident Tyler Robinson attend?

look i don't want to know what a g r o y p e r or whatever is, but i would like journalists writing for mainstream media to do their goddamn jobs and not shit themselves trying to get out the gate with the article equivalent of a "FIRST" comment

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