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Kevin Carey

6 months

1/ I wrote for @TheAtlantic about the myth of the unemployed college graduate, a story that the mainstream media have been getting wrong for nearly 50 years.

The Myth of the Unemployed College Grad

A bachelor’s degree continues to be a great investment. Why do the media keep suggesting otherwise?

www.theatlantic.com

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

This is literally a quote from Hyman Roth in Godfather Part II

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“We are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream. It was called ... Las Vegas.”

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Kevin Carey

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6 years

The 15 seconds of blank screen will make more sense when we all transfer $500 to a Romanian bank at 10:43 AM on Tuesday.

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Kevin Carey

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4 years

Wife: Why do you always know about all this weird stuff that's happening 45 minutes before I do? Me: It bubbles up on Twitter. Wife: Hmmm, maybe I should get on Tw Me: [lunges across table, grabs phone, throws it in front of a moving car]

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Kevin Carey

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3 years

Senator Tuberville doesn't think the taxpayers should subsidize higher education. He was a coach at: Arkansas State (public) Texas A&M (public) Ole Miss (public) Auburn (public) Texas Tech (public) Cincinnati (public) Is he giving the money back?

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Kevin Carey

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4 years

Here's the one stat you need to understand the crisis in the academic labor market: Colleges hired over half a million new professors to teach the Millennial generation. 94 percent were off the tenure track.

The Bleak Job Landscape of Adjunctopia for Ph.D.s (Published 2020)

Ruthless labor exploitation? Generational betrayal? Understanding the job crisis in academia requires a look at recent history.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Carey

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5 years

Me: I have some concerns with the Warren higher ed plan. Warren supporters: I see your point but respectfully disagree. Me: Same concerns with the Sanders plan. Bernie supporters: lol your a corporate stooge die of cancer idiot

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Kevin Carey

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5 years

We're all going around pretending that YouTube's recommendation algorithm wasn't obviously designed by Crowley from Good Omens. @neilhimself

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

3 years

I bought a PS4, played the Last of Us games back-to-back, and because my brain is weird I wrote 3,000 words on what I think @Neil_Druckmann and company were trying to accomplish and why it worked so well.

The Last of Us

There’s a scene halfway through the 2013 video game The Last of Us where the main character, Joel, is talking to his brother, who has…

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

1/ Now that Virginia has officially closed public schools for the rest of the 2019-20 academic year, with other states sure to follow, it's worth taking stock of what an enormous challenge this will be for educational equity.

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Kevin Carey

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4 years

@BenSpielberg There's no long run for the hundreds of thousands of people who are going to die because some voters took this approach in 2016.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

5 years

Admissions office sends strongly worded memo to athletic coaches clarifying that all bribes must be sent directly to the university general fund.

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Kevin Carey

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4 years

What are cruise ship companies even saying to passengers right now? Come aboard, we're expecting you, there's probably only a 30 percent chance, subject to change without notice, of getting stuck on a floating cauldron of viral death?

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

8 years

If answering machines still existed it would be fun to call people when they're not home and tell Alexa to buy stuff from Amazon.

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Kevin Carey

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3 years

@GiladEdelman “Poor financial planning” — didn’t get the 401k auto-debit right definitely a root cause of poverty, ask anyone in a homeless shelter and they’ll confirm

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Kevin Carey

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5 years

1/ A few years ago I wrote a book about technology and the future of higher education. I had hopes tech would make learning better, more accessible, and more affordable. Today I published a long article about what happened next. It's not a happy story.

The Corporations Devouring American Colleges

Universities had a chance to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Here's the absolutely infuriating history of what they did instead.

www.huffpost.com

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

1 year

@NathanJRobinson These should help:

12 Healing Crystals For Nausea, Vomiting And Morning Sickness - Crystal Healing Ritual

Do you feel nauseous all the time? Read this post to discover 12 amazing crystals for nausea and vomiting, and learn how to use them!

www.crystalhealingritual.com

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

3 years

No true gender equity until schools, camps, and doctors stop defaulting to Mom’s cell phone.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

5 years

1/ Last week I wrote about 2U, a firm that semi-secretly helps run very expensive online graduate programs at elite universities, in exchange for 60% of tuition. Today, 2U bought a company called Trilogy for $750 million. Here’s why that matters.

The Corporations Devouring American Colleges

Universities had a chance to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Here's the absolutely infuriating history of what they did instead.

www.huffpost.com

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

1/ You may have read today that the University of Arizona "purchased" online for-profit Ashford University. That's not actually what happened. Let me explain why.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

@EWAEmily Be fair, Emily -- after the recent market correction, it might only be $36 billion.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

3 years

Something you can't un-see once you see it is that the whole apparatus of legally tax-exempt non-profit status in this country is a constant disaster of greed and exploitation and no one is ever held accountable.

Houston Chronicle

@HoustonChron

3 years

In many places across Texas, clergy residences are extravagant estates nestled in the most exclusive enclaves. But unlike their wealthy neighbors, they don't pay taxes. ✏️ @Dexinvestigates , @byjayroot , @stephanierlamm 📷 @jonjshapley ➡️

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

1 year

@Noahpinion Reagan let a generation of gay men die from AIDS.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

6 years

8/ And it's hard not to remember that during the pilot Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell were strangers hired to pretend to be strangers hired to pretend to be husband and wife who then fell in love for real, who then fell in love for real and became husband and wife.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

@mollyhc @annehelen So the argument is that because the USMNT is mediocre and thus less popular, creating space in the stands for their opponent's fans, who yell at them, they should be paid more?

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

7 years

It's almost like the whole idea of "fiscal hawks" is a gigantic media-enabled ruse.

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7 years

How on earth does a "fiscal hawk" vote for a bill that costs $1,007 billion over the next ten years, when the economy is already very close to full employment and still running a deficit?

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Kevin Carey

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3 years

Exactly one year ago today I was emailing with @DanaGoldstein about how a CDC official had unexpectedly suggested schools might have to close for an extended period of time--like, a *month,* which seemed mind-boggling. "It sounds like the snow day that never ends," I wrote. Ha!

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Kevin Carey

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mike ginn

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11 years

My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

@tressiemcphd On the other hand: I inflated my dead 12-foot Frosty yesterday for the local preschoolers on their morning walk, and they were *rapt*

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

3 years

We're all still captive to the trauma of people who lived through 1972-1982 inflation.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

6 years

In fairness to Harvard, it’s only been 382 years. I’m sure they’ll find a qualified person of color to be president someday.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

7 years

1/ If you haven't looked at the latest private school voucher research, you should--the results are amazingly bad.

Dismal Voucher Results Surprise Researchers as DeVos Era Begins (Published 2017)

The new studies come at an interesting moment, with a proponent of vouchers newly in charge of the Education Department.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Carey

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5 years

@Daily_Express

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

3 years

@tressiemcphd He wrote a number one song for nine consecutive years.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

5 years

Weird how with all the concern about PC culture stifling campus free speech, Trump-loving @LibertyU is run like a police state.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

5 years

It's true, why just yesterday the giant financial conglomerate that bought my mortgage and bundled it into a CDO flew a representative down from New York City with a plate of warm cookies and said we know your wife is furloughed so send the check whenever, it's fine.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

5 years

TRUMP on Wilber Ross's comments: "I think what Wilbur was probably trying to say is that [unpaid federal workers] will work along. I know banks are working along... The grocery store." #WorkAlong

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

1/ This essay is what happens when someone of middling intellect with an axe to grind writes about a subject -- community colleges -- that they know absolutely nothing about. It's an embarrassment for the author and @NRO .

Kyle Smith

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4 years

In which I explain why Jill Biden’s dissertation is so conceptually flawed her advisors should have told her to start over (part III of my essay on this idiotic term paper)

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

1 year

@BrentTerhune The thing with Richard Gere.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

6 years

A few more days like this and Trump’s approval rating among registered Republicans could plummet into the high 80s.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

8/ It's incumbent on policymakers and school officials to ensure that students who are most vulnerable to educational disruption get the additional resources they need in the next few months.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

"The imminent pandemic was so obvious that you can't prove insider trading but not obvious enough to warn the public about" will be an interesting needle to thread.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

3 years

Happy to announce that @NewAmericaEd 's @claremccann is now at the U.S. Department of Education in the office of the Under Secretary. A great choice for students everywhere.

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Kevin Carey

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3 years

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

5 years

1/ In @DemJournal I make the case against K-12 school districts. School districts are tools of segregation and permanent inequality. To change that, we should adopt three policies: 1) Redistricting 2) National Funding 3) Decriminalization

No More School Districts!

At the root of educational inequality: the rich and poor districts that keep education segregated. Here are the three reforms we need.

democracyjournal.org

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

11 months

1/ Remember that study from a couple weeks ago about how Ivy League schools favor the rich in admissions? Many public universities do the same thing. My latest from @TheAtlantic

These State Schools Also Favor the One Percent

Some of the universities that cater most egregiously to wealthy students turn out to be public.

www.theatlantic.com

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Kevin Carey

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4 years

@JillFilipovic Parenting is a constant triumph of practicality over principle.

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Kevin Carey

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2 years

Shocked to learn that spending hundreds of millions of dollars on an unprofitable business run by a guy known for a lifelong series of spectacular financial disasters didn't work.

Whittle suspends operations at D.C. school after financial problems

The Whittle School & Studios, which aimed to offer a global network of campuses but has been beset by financial challenges, says it will not operate its D.C. campus in the upcoming school year.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kevin Carey

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6 years

@AdamSerwer Current events suggest they were right all along.

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Kevin Carey

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5 years

4/ There's a huge difference between financial literacy and "financial literacy," the latter being an enormous confidence scheme designed to blame people for their own exploitation. And now the grift is being integrated into our public schools. It's a scandal.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

7 years

Just because @realDonaldTrump lies constantly we shouldn't lose sight of fact that @mike_pence is a tremendous liar

In service to Trump, Pence keeps saying things that aren’t true

The vice president finds himself in an embarrassing position — again — with the Comey firing.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kevin Carey

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4 years

To state the obvious, Harvard isn't discounting tuition for online classes because classes aren't what people are paying for.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

6 years

1/ Nobody should be surprised that @BetsyDeVosED doesn't intentionally visit low-performing schools; this has been her explicit policy and philosophy all along.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

2/ It's well-established that "summer learning loss" affects students differently based on socioeconomic status. Pandemic learning loss could be much worse, particularly since it will directly precede the summer.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

7 years

@realDonaldTrump A sewer *is* a drain. You can't drain a drain.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

2 years

1/ Pre-K is great. The federal government should give all families access to free public Pre-K. But wait, wasn't there a big study recently that said otherwise? No. At @voxdotcom I explain why the real problem is how we talk about education research.

In defense of pre-K

What one study can — and can’t — tell us about education policy.

www.vox.com

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

My kid's music teacher is currently dancing the polka in his basement rec room on Microsoft Teams with 20 fifth graders and honestly I've never seen something so purely heroic. Bless educators everywhere right now.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

7 years

Hoping @realDonaldTrump 's one area of true expertise--unapologetically stiffing creditors--will be brought to bear on behalf of Puerto Rico.

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Kevin Carey

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6 years

A few years ago I moved to a seemingly quiet street in the near D.C. suburbs. A few weeks after arriving, a neighbor said “Did they tell you about Halloween?”

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Kevin Carey

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4 years

@maxeden99 All of the above is in fact the correct answer, glad to see public school doing their job.

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Kevin Carey

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7 years

1/ Today the @washingtonpost ran a new entry in its occasional ongoing series, "When Terrible Things Happen to Affluent White People in the DC Metro Area."

Two adults fatally shot, third person wounded in Reston, Va., home, police say

Those involved in the shooting knew each other, police said. Neighbors said a family of four moved into the house a few months ago.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

3 years

Vaccinated people are wearing masks in public because we're halfway through a mass vaccination process so nobody knows who has been vaccinated and who hasn't. It's polite and humane. Don't be weird about this.

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Kevin Carey

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4 years

If a $600 / week UI benefit blows apart your exploitative system of wages and benefits then maybe fix that instead of complaining.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

2 years

I once sat naked in the diplomatic sauna beneath the Finnish embassy and listened to a nice man explain how his national defense assignment was to cross-country ski 60km to the Russian border with a surface-to-air missile strapped to his back.

Janne M. Korhonen (@[email protected])

@jmkorhonen

2 years

Many people have wondered how the Finns defend Finland today, so here's a very short introduction to modern Finnish defence policy - and a brief synopsis of how the Finnish military would probably fight if any hostile country decided to invade. 1/

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Kevin Carey

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4 years

You don’t really appreciate the tropes and rhythms of a normal presidential speech until you don’t hear them for four long years. Feels so good. Feels like taking a full breath.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

5 years

@costareports This is going to cost Liberty University hundreds of millions of dollars:

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

2 years

@jbouie I went there with my parents *last month* and this is absolute bullshit -- the regular house tour is pretty much just as it always was; you have to specifically choose to go on the separate Slavery at Monticello tour. He's lying.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

3 years

1/ I've gotten pretty jaded about this stuff but it's still remarkable how University of Arizona officials are unashamedly willing to making wholly contradictory statements about who, exactly, controls The University of Arizona Global Campus.

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Kevin Carey

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6 years

Yep

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Kevin Carey

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2 years

It doesn't matter what words run under the headline; publishing a Times profile with this kind of photograph legitimizes the subject and therefore the racism and homophobia he represents.

He Fuels the Right’s Cultural Fires (and Spreads Them to Florida) (Published 2022)

Christopher Rufo helped make critical race theory a conservative rallying cry. Now he sees L.G.B.T.Q. issues as an even more potent line of attack.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Carey

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7 years

12/ The hierarchy of human value as expressed by @washingtonpost crime reporting is pretty clear: White > Black Rich > Poor Families > Single People The more you look like the people who own, make, and subscribe to the paper, the more your life and death matter.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

Everyone's personal quarantine plan seems to involve food delivered by an army of anonymous gig workers who don't have health insurance and I have questions?

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

Salacious details aside, remember that everything about the Falwell Jr. affair -- yachts, luxury hotels, sweetheart land deals, the incentive to look the other way -- begins with a flood of federal student loan money for online courses. Without it, the rest doesn't happen.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

2 years

@ScottAdamsSays Pretty sure the worst life decision young single person can make is marrying a cranky man twice her age.

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Kevin Carey

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4 years

3/ College-educated white-collar parents who can telework are home with their kids and can provide individualized instruction. (While working, I know, it's a huge challenge I'm personally living right now with a 4th grader, stay with me.)

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

7 years

4th study, this time in DC, finds school vouchers drive down test scores

emma brown

@emmersbrown

7 years

NEW: Feds are out w/ new eval of D.C. voucher program, and it finds negative impacts on student achievement.

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Kevin Carey

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4 years

7/ Also: everything about this is going to be a huge challenge for children with disabilities. Some can't access standard technology and media, others rely on specialized instruction and school-specific resources.

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Kevin Carey

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5 years

7/ Every society has stupid people and criminals and dumb teenagers and mental illness and all of those things. But only our society -- this one, America, right now -- is in the grip of a death cult that fetishes weapons of war.

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3 years

well at least being stuck home for a year will save us some money [every single appliance breaks from overuse] ok guess not

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Kevin Carey

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1 year

@GeneralSnoop @Noahpinion Why do people think the president has responsibility for the government’s response to an enormous public health crisis? Is that your question?

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4 years

5/ Parents who have to leave home to work, by contrast, will need to patch together ad hoc child care that may change day-to-day. Instability is the enemy of effective learning.

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Kevin Carey

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4 years

@ebruenig Had to really underline and repeat for emphasis with my folks that 79 is definitely "over 65"

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

6 years

It sounds bad when you put it that way.

The New York Times

@nytimes

6 years

Breaking News: Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, is said to be considering a plan to let schools use federal money to buy guns for teachers

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Kevin Carey

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One of the cool things about being a "nonprofit" university is you can spin up a new business, pay taxes on nothing, sell the business to a publicly-traded corporation, pocket the $$$$, and still pay taxes on nothing.

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13/ If you want to read more about these kinds of transactions:

The Corporations Devouring American Colleges

Universities had a chance to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Here's the absolutely infuriating history of what they did instead.

www.huffpost.com

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

5 years

People asking why these Hollywood actresses didn't just bribe their way into the Ivies like normal rich people aren't taking into account that the going market rate for legal graft is probably north of $10 million at this point whereas apparently they were paying like $15,000.

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Kevin Carey

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2 years

People say arming teachers will make schools like military bases, but I disagree. I live near a military base and go there frequently. You know what nobody is allowed to bring there, including active-duty soldiers? A gun.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

The idea that Ivy League colleges discriminate against white people is certainly the most insane thing I've read today, and I would remind you that it's August 2020.

U.S. Department of Justice

@TheJusticeDept

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Justice Department Finds Yale Illegally Discriminates Against Asians and Whites in Undergraduate Admissions in Violation of Federal Civil-Rights Laws

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4 years

Apparently they left out the second part of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish: “or I will lay a terrible curse on you and all those you hold dear.”

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Kevin Carey

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4/ One very notable exception among both public and private colleges: Almost uniformly, engineering schools don't favor the wealthy. Having real academic standards is a powerful counterbalance to the temptations of money.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

5 years

1/ Let's talk about how wealthy businessman Jack Zhou is currently in the process of getting away with bribing his two sons into Harvard -- with crucial assistance from Harvard itself.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

2 years

Are you planning to send your kids to college anytime soon? Read my new piece in @Slate about how much of the "financial aid" offered by colleges is an illusion, created by expensive consultants to squeeze as much $$$ out of families as possible.

The Single Most Important Thing to Know About Financial Aid: It’s a Sham

Colleges claim to award scholarships based on merit or need. In reality, they’re just charging the most they think families will pay.

slate.com

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Kevin Carey

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2 years

@dylanmatt When they become federal judges 20 years later there's always a mid-career section like "After leaving the Justice Department, Masterson returned to the law firm as a senior partner for eighteen months and was paid $27 million for having lunch with potential clients."

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

3 years

We're at the point where any news organization that simply accepts the "critical race theory" framing of educational debates is actively choosing to participate in a massive bad-faith propaganda campaign.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

2 years

Huh, how many times has the National School Boards Association been yelled at for using the phrase “domestic terrorist”?

Shannon Watts

@shannonrwatts

2 years

Virginia woman at a school board meeting last night threatens to bring “every single gun loaded” to shoot and kill her opponents if Page County Public Schools enforces a mask mandate. #vagov

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Kevin Carey

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7 years

I'm trying to concentrate and write a nice sober article about school vouchers but Twitter keeps saying there's a madman on the loose in DC.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

2 years

You have to wonder what’s going on at organizations that do this. (via @Noahpinion )

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

3 years

1/ Some thoughts on @melissakorn and @anfuller 's excellent investigation of high-priced Ivy League master's degrees that leave students with enormous debts they can't repay. First, while the focus is on elite schools, this dirty business is widespread.

‘Financially Hobbled for Life’: The Elite Master’s Degrees That Don’t Pay Off

Lured by the aura of degrees from top-flight institutions, many master’s students at universities across the U.S. took on debt beyond what their pay would support, an analysis of federal data on...

www.wsj.com

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

5 years

This is the fashionable well-educated prosperous liberal view of standardized tests, and it's constructed to avoid a whole lot of difficult questions.

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸

@AndrewYang

5 years

As someone who was very good at standardized tests growing up I think they are a terrible measurement of anything other than whether you are good at the test. Certainly have nothing to do with human worth, character or virtue.

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

@BenSpielberg Here's you and I debating this four years ago. I don't think your arguments hold up well.

Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

8 years

@BenSpielberg Idea that Trump risk can be gauged by adding up his statements on various policy issues misunderstands the presidency entirely

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

3 years

@JHWeissmann @Patrick_Wyman @HarrySteinDC @TheAtlantic "Come on down this weekend for a GREAT deal on a pre-owned Lincoln Navigator, our prices CAN'T BE BEAT and also after a few drinks or even if you just ask my politics are so nakedly reactionary that every word out of my mouth will literally melt your brain."

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Kevin Carey

@kevincarey1

4 years

4/ They also have access to reliable high-speed Internet if and when districts are able to ramp up instruction from a distance in the coming weeks. They also have comfortable housing in which this education can occur.

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