Dan Martin

The 14 worst-paying college majors, 5 years after graduation Education majors start out earning less right after college and often remain among the lowest-paid fields throughout their careers.

They really want to sell college as job training and placement to the middle and lower class, but wealthy kids at elite schools can major in whatever they want.
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Several grad students noted discussing ideas from class with friends and family and that it was eye opening to see both the resistance and the enlightenment to what they are learning. But they were surprised at how few people know about writing knowledge and how many people won't resist it.

Grad students had an epiphany last night in class when they realized that communicating to people in & out of academia about how writing & learning works in reality is a constant fight that never stops. No one told me that half of my job would be trying to convince people of a few basic concepts.

I lost the energy to do academic conferences like 7 years ago.

You could probably run your house for a month on the energy needed to make a 15 second AI video.

It would be cool if the people who actually do all the teaching in composition were able to share their stories and work as easily as the people who theorize and publish about the field but literally never teach comp.

College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree More than three years after ChatGPT debuted, AI has become a part of everyday life — and professors and students are still figuring out how or if they should use it.

It's just wild to me how AI profit potential means ZERO discussion of cheating and stealing. But regular old plagiarism still punishes students for messing up a quote and citation. These two ideologies exist side by side right now and it's blowing my mind.
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The whole world changes in academia when you find great friends outside of your department.

Israel was going to attack Iran and that would have led to Iran retaliating against the US. So, we decided to attack Iran first. That's how the administration of peace is selling another war in the Middle East.

My issue with a three year degree is that it doesn't really address why students don't finish in 4 years. It just cuts the curriculum. There are systemic issues and financial burdens that lead to extended graduation times that will still exist w a 3 year degree.
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Outsourcing feedback on student writing to AI is absurd. You have to read student writing to understand how they think & write & to help them learn. A language pattern machine doesn't know how to identify learning. I know everything abt student learning from reading & assessing student work.

American exceptionalism has to be the biggest disinformation grift ever.

At what point is the state legally responsible for providing kids with qualified educators?

State Moves to Pass Law Allowing Veterans to Teach Without Bachelor's Degree Lawmakers in one southern state have successfully pushed a bill that could help boost a volatile teaching profession.

They can lean on all the pedagogical training they received from educational experts.

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It's just a video game to them

Last call for nominations for the Hawisher & Selfe Caring for the Future Scholarship, due today, February 28, 2026! Check the 🧵below for info about the award, eligibility, and how to apply!

It's wild that this administration is liberating Iran while it tries to keep people from voting and posting their opinion on social media in the US. Can't believe they used a fake WMD argument to start a war in the Middle East again.

AI makes it really difficult to teach students how to value the hard ass work it takes to be a real expert. It's not a vibe, bro.

People aren't listening to this argument. It's significant. AI requires vetting, so it's a waste of time. It doubles the time needed to assess writing. Everyone has to check all the outputs for inaccuracies and made up sources. It's adding so much UNPAID labor to higher ed.

Writing is literally thinking. You can outsource that thinking to a machine if you want, but there's zero chance that outsourcing your thinking and writing will make you a better thinker or writer. ZERO.

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Until our nomination deadlines, Kairos will be spotlighting specific categories from our annual awards. Today we want to spotlight the Kairos Awards for Graduate Students and Contingent Faculty, due March 15, 2026. (For full descriptions of all the awards check out kairos.technorhetoric.net/awards.)

Exactly. 💯

OMG. Exactly. Here are a bunch of AI tools we want you to use, but we're also going to surveil you for cheating with AI.

It's also absurd that people use Turnitin to catch cheating but then allow students to use AI to write. Huh? Using AI is like using Turnitin's database of student papers to write an assignment. It's just taking someone else's intellectual property.

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? Coaching from artificial intelligence chatbots, personalized and accessible at any time, is now shaping how some students write.

No. Teachers aren't asking if AI can improve how students write. This is getting absurd. A language pattern machine that plagiarizes does not think or help people write. Or learn how to write. You have to actually write to get better at writing.

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It's pretty wild that students are expected to leave a composition course, an intro to academic writing, as experts in academic writing, but literally no student leaves an intro class as an expert. No one leaves intro to biology as a biologist. It's a bit more complicated than that.

All truckers and bus drivers will be required to take commercial driver’s license tests in English All truckers and bus drivers will have to take their commercial driver’s license tests in English as the Trump administration expands its aggressive campaign to improve safety in the industry and g…

It's a placement exam for truck drivers that is just nationalistic racism.
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I once waited 8 months for an IRB approval to give an 8 question survey that had zero chance of harm.

“The growing representation of private equity and hedge fund managers on university boards of trustees is analyzed to show how this increasingly wealthy sub-group of financiers gained elite social ties despite the decline of bank-based interlocks between corporate boards.”