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He Should Be Fired

7 hours ago ago from FemaleScienceProfessor

'Tis the season for teaching evaluations (yet again, yet again), so in the spirit of this special time, I shall continue my intermittent evaluation of evaluations and teaching. On quite a few occasions in my career, I have been a member of various sorts of evaluating committees that examine the research, teaching, and/or service activities of faculty within and beyond my department. In some cases these committees look at a single year of ...

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2 hours ago ago from Combined China Tours

&$ &$ A Tsinghua University student who spent two years in the army says she cannot wait to return to the military, despite her elite educational training. Jia Na, 23, a third-year journalism and broadcasting student, decided to take time out from her studies two years ago. She has now returned to campus life, but said she wants to study defense studies. For me, it was just a personal choice, I wanted t

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12 hours ago ago from Hare Krishna

An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would ...

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22 hours ago ago from Tel-Chai Nation

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15 hours ago ago from Fight The Hypo

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Virginia Student Charged in School Shooting

14 hours ago ago from The New York Times

WOODBRIDGE, Va. A community college student who opened fire on his math professor in a crowded classroom Tuesday was arraigned Wednesday on charges of attempted murder and discharging a firearm in a school zone. No one was injured in the shooting, which took place at one of the campuses of the state's largest university system, but it rattled a region where memories linger of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting shootings in which 32 people were ...

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13 hours ago ago from CNN Money

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