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11 votes
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Let us predict whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican
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China orders halt to history tests for students seeking credits for US university courses
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Alaska defunds scholarships for thousands of university students ahead of fall semester
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College financial-aid loophole: Wealthy US parents transfer guardianship of their teens to get aid
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The UA Regents were wrong to think help was on the way—and this weekend proved it
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Microsoft 365, Google cloud and Apple cloud deemed illegal in Schools of Hesse
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Alaska fears 'brain drain' after forty-one percent proposed cut to university system
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China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families
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Belief in Learning Styles Myth May Be Detrimental
10 votes -
Why education startups do not succeed
6 votes -
University of Chicago undergraduate physics bibliography
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Med students are doing vaginal exams on unconscious, non-consenting patients
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How Oxford university shaped Brexit — and Britain’s next prime minister
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Prisons are banning books that teach prisoners how to code
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The revenge of the poverty-stricken college professors is underway in Florida. And it's big.
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Sixteen-year-old STEM shooting suspect said he wanted to target classmates over bullying
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Anyone have experience going to school in their 50s?
I'm in my early 50s and have been seriously considering going to school. I have performed manual labor for most of my working career, and though I truly enjoy it, my body cannot keep up anymore. A...
I'm in my early 50s and have been seriously considering going to school. I have performed manual labor for most of my working career, and though I truly enjoy it, my body cannot keep up anymore. A few years ago I began looking for work in an office environment, and after a a demoralizing year of submitting resumes, I landed a minimum wage job in a small customer support office inside a larger organization. The work was soul suckingly boring. I applied to other departments and received job offers, but management would not let me leave customer service because I have a way of deescalating difficult situations. I was eventually offered the customer support manager role, but I refuse to manage people. Since the company would not let me move out of customer support, I left them and took a long vacation. That is where I am at now.
I am afraid that an educational investment will not pay out the dividends that I am hoping for. I don't have all the time in the world anymore. I guess I am looking for career / school advice, or if not advice, similar journeys.
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How Teach for America evolved into an arm of the charter school movement
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SerenityOS - A Custom New Unix-like OS
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Former Stanford sailing coach gets one day in prison, six months house arrest, two years probation, and a $10,000 fine in college cheating scandal
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DJI’s newest drone is a $499 tank meant to teach kids how to code
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Combined BA + MA degrees
Have any of you done these degrees? I'm switching disciplines for my MA, and I want to collect information on this alternative method should I fail that this summer. I'd have a more complete grasp...
Have any of you done these degrees? I'm switching disciplines for my MA, and I want to collect information on this alternative method should I fail that this summer. I'd have a more complete grasp of the field and proceed to a PhD equipped with better knowledge. The price to pay being some time, but I'll probably already have to do my MA---if I manage---in three years b/c the school might want me to take an extra preparatory year going through some undergrad classes.
So, any experiences, any comments, any links highly appreciated!
P.S.: EU information appreciated, that's been significantly harder to get at.
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A 'morbid fascination' with Columbine High School might lead to its shuttering
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Drag Queen Story Hour brings LGBTQ-friendly fun to the South
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Desperation and broken trust when schools restrain students or lock them in rooms
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West Virginia Senate passes sweeping education bill to ban teacher strikes
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The disadvantages of an elite education: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
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How one Colorado art teacher inspires kids by leaning into chaos, not control
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How Dr. Seuss’s Oh, The Places You’ll Go! became a ubiquitous (and cliché) graduation gift
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Political confessional: I think private schools should be banned
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The Permian Basin is booming with oil. But at what cost to West Texans?
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What it felt like: If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?
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Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy
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A union fight at Marquette University
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Answer Sheet California is overhauling sex education guidance for schools — and religious conservatives don’t like it
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Emotional health in public schools
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California teachers pay for their own substitutes during extended sick leave
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Schools are using software to help pick who gets in. What could go wrong?
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Mills signs bill to make Maine the first state to ban Native American school mascots
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The University of Maryland waited eighteen days to inform students of a virus on campus. That decision left vulnerable students like Olivia Paregol in the dark
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How does a rural Colorado county with three people per square mile send thirty students to an Ivy League institution?
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Math teachers should be more like football coaches
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How do you turn kids into bookworms? All ten children's laureates share their tips
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This is what it sounds like hiding in a dark classroom during a school shooting
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Inside the fight for developmentally disabled people's right to sex
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Lori Loughlin feels wronged in college admissions scandal
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Long school commutes are terrible for kids
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To help children learn braille, Lego will introduce bricks designed for the blind
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Considering going back to school
I'm having a bit of a reckoning where I'm working a call center job, and when I like it, it's okay, and when I don't, it's a drag, but just recently my wrists have started to seriously act up and...
I'm having a bit of a reckoning where I'm working a call center job, and when I like it, it's okay, and when I don't, it's a drag, but just recently my wrists have started to seriously act up and impact my work and life some, and my work insurance won't cover treatment. On a related note, Mom is willing to
love and supportbribe me back into going to school since I can go back on her insurance as long as I'm taking classes full time. Normally, I would respectfully decline because I'm prideful and petty, left school on academic probation 4 years ago after blowing off classes and am still nursing an underlying fear of failure and psychological hang-ups due to previous academic overextension. But I do have savings to fall back on, I am at a point where I can reasonably pivot, Mom will likely never let this one die, and my job causes me pain. So, what do?10 votes