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There are very clearly a large number of university presidents and trustees who have convinced themselves this is someone else's bad luck and not the template for their own imminent persecution, and I am astounded by their naivete. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

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1. What a complete POS 2. About 40% of retirees only have social security income. How stupid do you have to be to think that people are gonna be just A-ok with no money for the month.

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Numbers can help make these federal cuts to education easier to understand. You can look up your Wisconsin school district and see what's at stake. dpi.wi.gov/policy-budge...

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I wrote a feature for Businessweek about how the College Board became the most powerful force in higher education, and their ambitions to expand Advanced Placement to career and technical education courses. (now with gift link!)

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Without the income forgiveness component of IDR, after 25 or 30 YEARS, we're condemning borrowers to a lifetime of student debt. Not the original intent. tcf.org/content/comm...

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College Prices are falling for everyone (almost) -- but are still often too costly. www.brookings.edu/articles/col...

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Musk in Wisconsin. “Building America’s Future, under its “Progress 2028” fictitious name, has an ad campaign that pretends to support Susan Crawford’s candidacy for the Wisconsin Supreme Court election but whose real purpose is to disseminate messages that will damage Crawford’s candidacy.”

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Wisconsin is growing slightly, and only because of international migration to our state. Headline is a bit misleading here—it’s a record only because it reverses slightly a decade of decline for Milwaukee. www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

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Labor supply responses for student loan borrowers to a payment pause show reductions in hours consistent with liquidity constraints with effects concentrated among those with less than a Bachelor's degree, from Diego A. Briones and Sarah Turner https://www.nber.org/papers/w33553

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The Trump administration is putting unprecedented pressure on America's universities. We want to help local newsrooms explain what's at stake for colleges in their communities. That's why we're launching Higher Ed Under Pressure. Read more: www.opencampus.org/higher-ed-un...

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NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

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There are 35 million federal student loan borrowers not enrolled in school. As of September 2024, just 13 million were making on-time payments on their loans. My latest post on the data behind the return to repayment: www.aei.org/education/th...

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Women in the US are considerably more likely than men to have a bachelor's degree. And a new Pew Research Center survey suggests that the trend may continue: 60% of teen girls, vs. 46% of teen boys, say they plan to attend a four-year college after high school. www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

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Thank you Wisconsin for joining this lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

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Our tips truck has hit the road. This week, the Education Dept. announced it would fire about 1,300 workers. If you were affected, we'll be near the Education Dept. building, ready to meet folks where they are. You can also reach out via Signal at 917-512-0201 or go to propublica.org/tips.

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Trump wants to bring back the law that was used to create Japanese internment camps.... www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...

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This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

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Same. Download all data now before everything disappears. This is not a drill.

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Wesleyan, you are making this alum very proud right now.

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How much federal funding are Donald Trump and Elon Musk threatening to take away from your local public schools? A great tool to find out the answer and use it in your advocacy.

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Ok so does this mean the price of eggs is going down?

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No words.

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Core ED functions include: processing 17+ million FAFSAs, providing 6.4 million students with Pell Grants, disbursing 6.4 million student loans, and managing loan repayments for 43 million borrowers. None of this happens magically, without people.

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What Does a Shutdown Have to Do With the Budget or Elon Musk? Here’s a Guide. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

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“If everything goes right, none of you will be able to afford food, housing, or retirement ever again.” theonion.com/trump-says-r...

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science is good and we should all chip in and pay the best people to do it

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The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's

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I just followed @ambersparks.bsky.social because I know that she can bring some laughs here. Boy do we need some laughs. We're Bluesky not Stormsky right?

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Student loan borrowers owe loans. ED owes them responsive and reliable borrower support.

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A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary: www.404media.co/archivists-r...

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We'll say it again: No, 150-year-olds are not collecting Social Security benefits. #SOTU www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Incredible, lifelong, selfless leadership. www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...

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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

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SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

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With House passage of its budget resolution and its requirement of at least $880b in #Medicaid cuts, here again is my writeup from January of all of the deeply damaging Medicaid proposals under consideration to meet that target amount of cuts: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/20/h...

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So is this what happens when FAA becomes more efficient?

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If you are looking for analysis of what is under threat when it comes to funding for higher ed and basic needs supports @ticas-org.bsky.social has a great blog out today that breaks things down very nicely, if depressingly #EduSky ticas.org/accountabili...

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We've launched a Wisconsin Supreme Court Race toolkit! Make sure every voter in Wisconsin knows what's at stake! Share now! social.demcast.com/toolkit/WISu...

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A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order on Monday blocking the Education Department and the Office of Personnel Management from disclosing sensitive data to members of Elon Musk’s team and anyone assisting them.

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NEW: Peggy Carr, commissioner of the Nat'l Center on Education Statistics and a two-decade+ veteran at Educ Dept, was abruptly put on leave today. She runs NAEP, the national math and reading tests seen as important marker of educational progress www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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