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If you can read this, it's time to take your multivitamin.
(Also, I love you.)

Finally, Persis Yu closes with 🔥:

'Rather than allowing the same student loan companies to rebrand as creatures of the federal government, we should pursue moving beyond the current era of privatization and abuse.

Ultimately, we need to cancel the debt & make college free.'

In a new commentary, TCF's @Amber_D_Villa and Bob Shireman explain what's next in the 'post-OPM' marketplace — and what U.S. Department of Education can do to disincentive for-profit education companies from targeting and recruiting students for their own financial gain.

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Seven years ago we filed FOIA requests with 100+ public universities, seeking copies of contracts with outside companies involved in their online degree programs.

A thread on online program managers (OPMs) — and why schools are cutting ties with them. 🧵
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Bless MOHELA's heart. All eyes are on them and they can't even get the small things right. At least I hope this is a small typo and they don't plan to debit my account 541% of $541

Things younger than this 1864 Arizona abortion ban:

- the end of the Civil War (1865)
- the Comstock Act (1873)
- women's suffrage (1919)
- the birth control pill (1950)
- Arizona (1912)

earthquakes in new york, rainstorms in los angeles, what's next, the moon eclipsing the sun??????

Democrats call on Biden to declassify documents on Brazil’s dictatorship for 60th anniversary thehill.com/policy/interna…

The 5th Circuit just imposed a nationwide bar on debt relief for students who were defrauded or otherwise scammed by their colleges

Ed-tech giant 2U—yes, the firm driving students toward risky private student loans for low-quality programs —is approaching financial demise.

And students will pay the price.👎

Read our letter warning consumerfinance.gov & U.S. Department of Education to protect students now: protectborrowers.org/advocates-soun…

If there's any area that should be able to resist AI FOMO, it's higher ed and the higher ed press, given how often supposed innovations in educational flame out, but they're not doing great so far. Important perspective 👇

In the Mystery AI Hype Theater Newsletter this morning: a take-down of proxy hype in the higher ed press.

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in the days since the baltimore bridge collapse, we've heard that we're 'strong' and 'resilient.' i spoke with people responding to the horrific collision to see what that actually means.

a (scary!) honor to report on my home city for the The Guardian

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

Qualitative methods + quantitative methods 🥰

If Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn, and Sam Mewis all called me out publicly in the same day I would cease to exist forever.

It’s funny seeing posts like “WE’VE BEEN DEALING WITH DEI FOR DECADES NOW AND I AM SO TIRED OF IT!” and it’s like okay calm down, little buddy, you just learned about this term two months ago when “woke” wasn’t putting up numbers