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This thread is about all things tools.

Let me pump some schmoo on you.

Automagic schmoo squirter.

You'll have to exsqueeze AvE. He's Canudian....

Yeah well whatever.

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday indicted dozens of people — including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin — in...

Vatican launches exorcism training course as demand for priests with skills to tackle demonic possession rises
Irish Examiner

The Vatican is...

Well some of them are real science books/papers. Some are questionable, so read before downloading. But there are some good reads there too.

It’s not hard when a matter is a non political one

But if it’s a matter of faith and belief, very very hard

Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands

When Syracuse University...

Not quite science. Could go in politics. Education it is.

IQ. Do UQ? A Sojourn Among the True Believers.
Fred Reed in Unz Review

Writing about...

Longish article by George Packer in The Atlantic :

When the Culture War Comes for the Kids
Caught between a brutal meritocracy and a radical new...

On the one hand, teachers having to buy supplies themselves.

On the other...

New York’s Most Elite High School Admits Just Seven Black Students in a Class of 900 :cowbell:

Yes, the new spin is to use the loaded word...

It is increasingly important for all of us to recognize offensive and/or racist material with nothing more than a glance.

This thread will help us...

Figured we should have a catchall thread for the wackiest examples of political correctness at universities.

So here's an opening bid:

Facial, not...

Sold only to the teaching profession for use in the classroom.

I'll bet. :D

Mister Rogers' creepy evil twin or Mister Cool? :coolspecs:
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IQ Scores Are Falling in Worrying Reversal of 20th Century Intelligence Boom
Science Alert

:mrgreen:

Fat Studies

An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society

Yes really! :mrgreen:

Sample:

Fat pedagogy: Improving teaching and...

Efforts grow to help students evaluate what they see online (AP)

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Alarmed by the proliferation of false content online, state...

Education company under fire for ‘racist’ nursing textbook
NY Post

Synopsis: Those people don't feel pain like we do.

Taking the pee out of physics: how boys are getting a leg-up
Tes Global (UK)

...

Well, for starters, our recent analysis of the kinds of physics...

The headline:
Chromebooks: 1 Million Sold in 3 Months

Isn't very impressive. Unless you consider who bought them.

iPads are still the apple of...

Pomona College Students Say There’s No Such Thing as Truth, 'Truth' Is a Tool of White Supremacy
Reason

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If the truth does not exist—if it...

‘Literacy’ test for teachers may be nixed
NY Post

The state Board of Regents will likely vote early next week on whether to ax the Academic...

Giant cell blob can learn and teach, study shows
Science Daily

No more teechurz dirty looks. :mrgreen:

A Chinese university lecturer is using facial-recognition technology on his students to help determine the level of interest in his classes, a tool...

An Ivy League professor on why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color: ‘We don’t want them’ ( Wapo )

It's counterintuitive, what with affirmative...

Charter schools are like private schools funded with public money. The theory is that by allowing competition, the best schools will prevail. Some...

Sociology student gets a First for dissertation on Kardashians
The Register

Synopsis: After a binge watch, it is determined that the Kardashians...

I had never heard of it before, but lately they've been advertizing all over the Chicago L.

Apparently their big thing is Social Justice TM , which...

Graeme Whiting, the headmaster and founder of the Acorn School, an independent private school in Gloucestershire, U.K., wrote a convoluted blog post...

Cracked magazine click bait article.

The story begins ...
When Alice was in grad school, she found herself the unlucky target of a stalker ......

I wonder what parts of this story are actually true and/or really happened:

What's the largest number you can represent with 3 digits? Nope....

Texas education board dreads possible return of culture war with anti-gay candidate

AUSTIN – Mary Lou Bruner has at least twice said President...

With the totally hip name of ScHOLA²RS House . :notsure:

Civil rights group challenges UConn over black-only dorm plans

A civil rights...

And the food needs an upgrade!

Oberlin College Students Protest The Cafeteria Food Not Being “Culturally Accurate” Enough, Demand To Be Paid An...

I paraphrase of course.

Los Angeles public schools closed due to bomb threat; NYC received same threat, but Bratton slams response as...

The law itself may be fine and all, but don't you just looove the way they name these things?

Every Student Succeeds , gimme a break. :roll:

As...

In New York City they ride the subway.

But what about in towns that don't have good public transportation?

Mom Accused of Helping Sons Make...

Congratulations, Student Protesters, You Just Got Used
The Federalist

... the more you read through the students’ demands, the more they look...

Really. :)

Confederate flag displayed on student laptop prompts latest bias incident report
The Gatepost Framingham State University's...

Zimbabwean pastor, Prophet Sham Hungwe, claims ‘anointed pens’ will help students pass exams
The Independent (UK)

...

News outlets from across...

It Will Take More Than Celestial Navigation to Hack-Proof the Navy
...
Navigation nowadays, however, isn't a skill to be practiced and perfected so...

DOES the college lecture discriminate? Is it biased against undergraduates who are not white, male and affluent?

The notion may seem absurd on its...

It is unremarkable that there will be some people who think so.

What is significant about this story is that a tenured professor at Yale teaches...

BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON THE UC BERKELEY MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT

In a nutshell: Stop making us look bad. If you don't, we'll fire you.

California exit exam abolished, diplomas to be awarded
San Jose Mercury News

Upending a hallmark of California school reform, Gov. Jerry Brown...

:lmao:

Florida school apologizes for warning students that evolution deniers were trying to ‘mislead’ them
Raw Story

:|

Not really banned...just reimagined.

The cause for concern, the school district explained, were some “isolated incidents of unfortunate...

Hovind is out of the joint and back in business promoting young earth creationism.
Perhaps he learned his lesson and will pay his taxes. And I...