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I was fiddling around yesterday and happened to notice something a little odd: Average hours of work per week fell sharply in January. It's now lower than it's been since the Great Recession with the exception of a single month at the start of the pandemic. But then, because of my musing about seasonal adjustments, ...continue reading "Hours worked per week fell dramatically in January"

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is also our second place winner on the funny side. It’s from That One Guy in response to our refusal to take down our posts about Appin: Someone didn’t do their homework… If only there had been some way for Rajat Khare and Appin to […]

A decade ago San Francisco banned 8th grade algebra in an attempt to improve math outcomes for students of color. The Wall Street Journal reports: A study by Stanford University researchers released in March 2023 found that San Francisco’s policy largely failed in its equity goals, with the proportion of Black and Latino students enrolling ...continue reading "San Francisco cries uncle in the algebra wars"

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), along with U.S. Senators Tina Smith (D-MN), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), today reintroduced the Proprietary Education Oversight Task Force Act, legislation that will establish an interagency committee tasked with improving coordination of federal oversight of for-profit colleges to ensure that students are not scammed out of an education and into a mountain of debt. The bill would require the committee to publish an annual report, detailing enforcement actions taken against for-profit colleges across federal agencies. It also would require the committee to publish a For-Profit College Warning List for potential students to help them make informed decisions about their options for post-secondary education. “Predatory for-profit colleges rake in billions in federal student aid rather than to provide a quality education to students, who are often drowning in debt with

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