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Words I've never heard at any SUNY enrollment management meet: - Protect Selectivity - rankings

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

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Video: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump

In this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...

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Eric Kelderman @erickelderman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My latest profile. Michael Roth is “the skunk at the lawn party,” said Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, at Yale University, because "he’s eager to raise the tough issues that have gotten papered over by others.” www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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The President Who Won’t Shut Up

Michael Roth is trying to defend higher education. Why isn’t anyone joining him?

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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Me, when there's a turn-and-talk at the session.

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Slide from a Lecture on Tap i did.. its a bloodbath!!!

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's fascinating how many people who work in and around college seem to make their brand "Colleges are bad."

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can't just take a Green Lantern ring! That's not how it works

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bottle of water at the polls: ELECTION INTERFERENCE Promise voters $5,000: 🇺🇸 DEMOCRACY 🇺🇸 Glad we cleared that shit up.

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

maybe we should have the Dartmouth president take the SAT so she can show her merit www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Don’t Write With AI, Say People Who Write With AI

Your “cheating” is their “assistive tool.”

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

Born
July 22, 1984 (age 42)
Education
Harvard University (BA)
Occupation
Journalist
Employers
The Atlantic
The New York Times
Slate
The Washington
Independent
Spouse
Ezra Klein (m. 2011) [1]
Children
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Just Equations @justequations.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@akilbello.bsky.social and Federick Ngo join @pamelaburdman.bsky.social for a virtual conversation, delving into the issue of math preparation and deconstructing gatekeepers and math traps. Watch the webinar recording: www.justequations.org/event/decons... #EDUSky #MathEducation #CollegeSuccess

Screenshot from Just Equations' "Voices on Math Readiness: Deconstructing Gatekeepers & Math Traps" webinar featuring Pamela Burdman, Akil Bello, and Federick Ngo.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I guess I’ll keep screaming it into the void: AP participation and pass rates for the 2023–2024 school year for every HS in NYS are publicly available USNWR didn’t want to pay someone to collect the data, that’s all this is about! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...

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U.S. News Shuffled Its N.Y. High School Rankings. An Uproar Ensued. (Gift Article)

After the New York State Education Department denied a request from U.S. News for A.P. scores, perennially top-ranked schools plummeted.

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bell Curves is exploring the #SHSAT: 3rd version in 3 yrs. All this flux just gives those who can prep a greater advantage Read about the practice tests that aren't like the actual test: www.linkedin.com/pulse/shsat-... & the interface: www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-sh... @errollouis.bsky.social

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By the end of this semester I might acutally understand the difference between r and r-squared! #watchout #gradschool #pearson

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My soul left my body as I watched the ending

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's okay not to have an opinion on something. It's even more okay not to express that opinion online.

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All the hard parts of the college admissions process are about feeling. The stress of waiting, the fear of rejection, the anxiety of choice...

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can't wait until I can get new #Hillman gear!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have a different social feed then nearly everyone it seems because I somehow manage to avoid most viral things..

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many professional class whites seem to have decided that the moral of Nikole Hannah-Jones' NYT piece is that she was wrong to care about the education of disadvantaged Black kids in the first place and nothing can be done.

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think @darrigomelanie.bsky.social said everything that needs to be said.

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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hahaha my first paragraph... Picture 1 - Human only (100%) Picture 2 - Asked AI "Edit this paragraph lightly" (Not 100% Human as I asked AI to revise it)

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

close your mouth they are exactly the same!!!

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New strong contender for the most inane headline of the year!

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's not a ribbon but it's still cool

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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We’re not being governed, we’re being looted! 👇 👇 👇 👇

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Did you see that the prof who wrote the open letter and opened used AI to do it?

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everyone who is crashing out over the NYT guest op-ed (which has not been skeeted or gotten a push alert) about University of California admissions procedures: please report to this link immediately and take the test! akilbello.com/crisis-const...

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Take the Diagnostic: The Math 2 Skills Assessment

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I didn't hold back. These centers are a blight on higher education and we should say so. dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...

“Center for Intellectual Freedom is a really Orwellian name because they’re forcing mandatory classes on students who don’t want it,” Ray said. “Just as a matter of pure consistency, if closing African American Studies was just a financial decision, the center should be closed.” Ray said universities do a better job fostering free thought than any other institution — including churches, workplaces, and the military.

“You can say and do things at universities that you cannot do anywhere else,” he said. “So the notion that universities are a problem when it comes to free speech is just a lie.”

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today I learned about - Tau A - Lambda - Chi squared Also nominal statistics do not have a direction.

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The hair is reason enough for hate

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think my entire Bluesky feed was in the chron today On HRCs: "They are important places,” said Cantwell, “What they’re not is representative places.” @bakerdphd.bsky.social @cantb.bsky.social @victorerikray.bsky.social @ceciliaorphan.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/high...

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Higher Ed’s Harvard Problem

An exclusive club of colleges commands the public narrative. Does that come at a cost?

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I do not have the words to express how frivolous this lawsuit—underwritten by your tax dollars—is. Eva Moskowitz is engaging in Trumpian-level lying by claiming that USNWR high school rankings influence college admissions. Bring back shame and consequences! I longisland.news12.com/success-acad...

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Success Academy sues New York State over drop in rankings

The charter school network is one of several in New York State blaming their drop on a decision to no longer share data from AP courses.

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ivy League: You need all As to get in. Student: I have all As. Ivy League: That’s grade inflation. Show us your test scores. Student: Here’s my score predicting all As! Ivy League: Welcome aboard. Student: I got the As and not one C. Ivy League: That’s grade inflation. We’re now limiting As.

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Holy crap! The NFL season started last night? It's got to be because of streaming that I've missed all season kick off ads!

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

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SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/09/2026

The two largest public school systems in the country, New York and Los Angeles, are banning AI for at least some of their students this school year.

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Another big school district bans generative AI, this time for all students

The action in the Los Angeles Unified School District comes after officials adopted strict screen time limits.

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And I plan to abuse it ! It's the American away

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

After so many years of struggling to get access to academic papers, I feel like He-Man when he pulls his Power Sword

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Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I hope the paper addresses the sadness of the logo

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 31/08/2026

🚨New working paper alert!🚨 Private tutoring chains like Kumon and Sylvan have grown rapidly. Who uses them? Do they improve kids' skills? BU econ PhD student Samuel Nitkin and I provide answers in: "Kumon Up: Private Tutoring Centers and Student Achievement" www.nber.org/papers/w35671 1/?

Private tutoring chains like Kumon and Sylvan have expanded rapidly in recent decades.
Combining data on business locations, household spending, and district test scores, we study who
uses these centers and how they affect academic skills. Nearly half of tutoring users are from the top
income decile, with Asian and White households five and two times as likely to purchase tutoring as
Black and Hispanic households. A staggered differences-in-differences design shows the opening
of a district's first chain center raises district-wide math and reading scores by 0.02-0.03 standard
deviations, at a much lower cost than public spending typically producing similar gains. Math
effects are largest for White and Asian students, so that center entry widens racial achievement
gaps, though less so in more racially integrated districts. These private investments help their
users, deepen educational inequality, and shape outcomes by which state accountability systems
and families judge schools.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Bari Weiss's Free Press CBS is just worried that El-Sayed might be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny! He might be open to a fresh political attack! He might be criticized! Not by *them*, silly. No, no, no. By *other* people who might be coming forward with weird complaints. Any day now.

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