The answer has to be, speaking as someone who advises undergrads: the graduate education itself must be worth it.

UISD board votes to close Matias De Llano, Amparo Gutierrez elementary schools The United ISD Board of Trustees voted at a board meeting to approve the consolidation of Matias De Llano and Amparo Gutierrez elementary schools.

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Our local school board voted to close two elementary schools in Laredo tonight. Thankful it wasn’t my son’s school but heartbroken for all the families this decision affects.

I’m not a purist on AI. It has some legitimate uses. But using it to grade student written work?! Hell no. Not now, not ever.

putting your student's work through the chatbot instead of reading it and providing real feedback should have some like... real consequences. because WTF.

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social.

70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge.

30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation.

7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported.
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Tough loss. Ugh.

I have been a Spurs fan since the David Robinson and Sean Elliott era and have always loved this team. Anyone here remember the Memorial Day Miracle? IYKYK

Spurs obviously not as good without Wemby in there but showing they can clearly still turn it up whenever they want. #gospursgo

This isn't just about Texas; it's about the future of higher ed everywhere. @aaup.org @texasaft.org

I’m from Shreveport. I wrote about the tragic murders of these kiddos.

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My approach is to rename documents for every revision so I don’t lose even the “bad” first draft ideas after editing/rewriting because sometimes they can be useful later

Big public’s rely on grad students to help with large scale research. Texas public’s are toxic now, any grad student with another option isn’t coming here.

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

A difficult concept to navigate properly is that *testing* is itself a major problem in education (most exemplified by the No Child Left Behind testing regimes. This can mean that the very tests revealing declines in learning are themselves part of what is causing the decline.

Haven’t watched the Spurs since Duncan and company retired and wow they look good. But also has the game changed! It’s all so fast and 3-point shots.

Structural things are structural, declining trust in universities edition

The Corpus Christi Water Crisis Isn't Exceptional. It's Early. When drought cycles outpace infrastructure planning, a water emergency is not a surprise—it’s a forecast.

Featured: What makes Corpus Christi significant as a case is not that the drought was unpredictable. It is that the drought was predicted, and that the planning systems in place were calibrated to conditions that are no longer stable.

Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor.

The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.

The university exists for far more than meeting “market demand” but that’s all we keep hearing about in Texas.

The state has been underfunding public universities for years and imposing a business logic on all its operations and we are the problem? Get serious.

This report hits on many important issues & identifies important problems that could be addressed. But it fails by writing about the problem of trust, from the outset, without even mentioning the decades of concerted attacks & lies coming from the far right authoritarian party & right-wing pundits.

When El Salvador’s Prisoners Go Free, She’s There to Pick Them Up

When El Salvador’s Prisoners Go Free, She’s There to Pick Them Up www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/w...

Wow- I wasn’t aware of what was going on since I haven’t been a member of ASA for several years but I think at an absolute minimum they could have adopted your proposal for an advisory vote on this.

My dad lost his job in 1988 and we sold our house and entered a decade of economic hardship. My memory of that time is still painful. Unlike many of my Gen X peers I subsequently voted Dem in every election.

I blame Reagan for everything.

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

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AAUP and AFT Launch National Higher Education Platform Ahead of 2026 Midterms AUSTIN, Texas—Today, the American Association of University Professors and the AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive national policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms to counter the Trump adminis...

HAPPENING NOW: The AFT and @aaup.org are in Texas launching our new Nnational Higher Education platform ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Read more in the release here, and follow along in the thread below. @afthighered.bsky.social

A ‘Gut Punch’ of Censorship and ‘Erasure’: University of Texas Professors Decry Rushed Merging of Ethnic & Gender Studies “It will be death by a thousand cuts,” said Lilia Rosas, a professor of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies.

🔔Lilia Rosas, Latino/a Studies prof, “If you think ethnic studies and women’s and gender and sexuality studies are the only programs to go, pay attention…This university is reinventing itself around a lens less committed to knowledge-making.” ⬇️

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Is Keiko ever going to stop running for president? Good grief.