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[ad_1] Top congressional Republicans want more information from the Education Department on its plans to resume student loan payments in September following a three-year pause. North Carolina representative Virginia Foxx and Louisiana senator Dr. Bill Cassidy, both of whom are Republicans, sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona this week demanding documents and a …

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[ad_1] Public colleges and universities and K-12 schools in Louisiana will be required to display signs that read “In God We Trust” in all classrooms starting in August, according to a new law signed by Governor John Bel Edwards earlier this month. The law specifies “a minimum requirement of a paper sign.” Any other specific …

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[ad_1] Amid ongoing enrollment challenges, the presidents of North Dakota colleges made a plea to state officials Tuesday to respond to a program in Minnesota that they worry could lead to a loss of students, The Forum of Fargo-Moorehead reported. The program—the North Star Promise—will offer free tuition to in-state families earning under $80,000 a year. …

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[ad_1] ‘Scientism’ as Antiscience of Doubt and Disbelief: Academic Minute Doug Lederman Thu, 06/29/2023 – 12:00 AM [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Orthodox Jewish students at Brandeis University slammed the institution’s administrators for placing an advertisement in The New York Times Magazine that called the institution “anything but orthodox,” the Times of Israel reported. The Sunday advertisement read, “Brandeis was founded by Jews. But, it’s anything but orthodox.” The text was in a two-page spread as …

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