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[ad_1] Three groups in Boston—the Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England and the Greater Boston Latino Network—have asked the Education Department to investigate Harvard University’s practice of operating a legacy admissions program, in which the children of alumni are favored. According to Lawyers for Civil Rights, nearly 70 percent of Harvard’s donor-related …

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[ad_1] Student Perceptions of ChatGPT: Academic Minute Doug Lederman Wed, 07/05/2023 – 12:00 AM [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Although the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard came as no surprise, its mandate to exclude the consideration of race in college admissions feels like a gut punch, especially to those of us who have been longtime advocates for educational equity. Even more upsetting is that the court justified its …

Affirmative action and the myth of merit (opinion) Read More »

[ad_1] Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Getty Images News In a 6-to-3 ruling finding race-conscious admissions practices at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be unconstitutional, the Supreme Court essentially ended affirmative action, upending the elite college admissions landscape. At the heart of the case against Harvard was the argument that Asian …

SCOTUS decision not a win for Asian Americans (opinion) Read More »

[ad_1] I have a chronic autoimmune illness, an invisible disability, and my institution took its responsibility to the Americans With Disabilities Act seriously, so my COVID-related online teaching time was longer than that of most of my colleagues—I taught online from spring 2020 to spring 2022. Throughout that period, I had the opportunity to work …

The benefits of using Montessori principles in college classes (opinion) Read More »

[ad_1] To the Editor: Like Michael Barnett and Nathan Brown (“Biden Administration Punts on Defining Antisemitism,” June 23, 2023), I share critique of the IHRA definition of anti-Jewish discrimination and bigotry, although for different reasons. I believe that the definition has significant value and merit even as it is imperfect, imprecise,  and incomplete — as …

Palestinians’ and Jews’ rights to self-determination (letter) Read More »