Anyone intimately familiar with U.S. education research of the past half century recognizes its marked difference from that of other fields. Some attribute the difference to an inferiority of methods, implying that education professors are not quite as bright as, say, economists. I would argue, instead, that bias is, by far, a greater problem—that bias […]
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The rules were very clear. No recordings of any kind were permitted. There would not be a traditional Q&A; rather, participants could scan two QR codes, one for the first half of the day and one for the second half, which would lead participants to a page where they could submit questions for review. Alireza […]
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In its infinite wisdom, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has decreed that individuals with “severe intellectual disability” can now attend all state colleges and universities, including UMass Amherst: Under the new law, young people aged 22 and older with intellectual disabilities can participate in higher education opportunities without being matriculated or degree-seeking students and without having […]
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