#Schools

Schools are making students record their bedrooms in order to take exams, letting virtual watchers study their every move. Gross invasion of privacy, no meaningful way to opt out, emblematic
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CV19 & Children: threadChildren make up 1-2% of all #coronavirus cases.They are at ~0% risk of being hospitalized and have 1 in ~2 million. chance of dying .They have a
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In scandal after scandal, religious entities have hidden egregious misconduct from the public. With today's decision in #LittleSistersofthePoor, #SCOTUS went out of its way to help churches further shroud themselves
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Watching @3M #StateofScience virtual panel - @jseth2 says right now is the BEST time to advocate for science. Survey results show increased appreciation for science & trust in scientists in
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Leftists need to understand how compromised by imperialiam international academic, NGO, press, and human rights orgs are. You shouldn't trust anyone about the global south just because they have a
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This is a really careful, interesting, and thoughtful analysis of non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 and what works (i.e. masks, distancing etc) to control spreadA quick review thread 1/nhttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/20
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This administration’s incompetence & dereliction of duty has only exacerbated the chaos & opaqueness concerning vital steps required to keep us safeThe impacts on nursing homes & schools is a
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Wish we'd stop putting literature and creative writing programs in these weird silos, where one is only academic and one is only studio-based, with zero overlap between. Creative writing requires
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One of the #Caramellos schools has just sent a very detailed email about how back-to-school is going to happen on 1 June 2020We are fortunate enough to have the option
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i flopped a-levels, lost my med school place, cried, went through clearing to a different uni, graduated & now i'm at one of the best med schools in the country.
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I'm tired. I'm tired of living in a country where black people are dis-proportionally killed, arrested, threatened, oppressed, vilified, and shamed. The images coming out of MN this morning of
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Gentle reminder a lot of Elders love Thanksgiving and likely also churchThey survived kidnapping and being sold to residential schools or abusive Christian families at the age of 5 through
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[TW: SA] I keep seeing threads about how children are innocent and shouldn't be taught about sex and consent, so I'm going to share about what happens when you DON'T
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OK. Seems very likely that we're currently cruising towards a potentially extremely damaging failure to get, and keep, kids in #school in England (and beyond). I hope I'm wrong but
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NEW: The Education Department just launched a searchable database of foreign gifts and contracts reported by U.S. universities. The portal includes only the gifts and contracts reported since June this
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Parents: the reality is school boards are leaning towards hybrid learning. It's the easiest and laziest solution in the face of a government who won't fund anything properly.As educators we
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