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Stephanie Hall (she/her)

@stephmhall.bsky.social
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▫️writing about ed policy and politics ▫️former middle & high school teacher (13 years 🇺🇲 & 🇧🇷) ▫️PhD in international ed policy ▫️posts are mine & reposts mean "hey look at this” campsite.to/stephmhall

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
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Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)
The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
for a bill markup about cutting bureaucracy, this sure is dragging on in a mind-numbingly bureaucratic way
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Opening statement for today's House Ed Committee markup started out by throwing Jimmy Carter under the bus 🫣
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 01/07/2026
whew, this investigation by @jbeowulf.bsky.social is something else: www.newamerica.org/insights/the...
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The AI College: How One For-Profit School Substituted Instructors With a Chatbot
An inside look at AI-powered Maestro University exposes a pattern of policy failures, potential legal violations, and widespread frustration among students—acting as a warning sign for higher educatio...
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
saying this in my meanest angriest tone: when will we finally have Ludwig Season 2???
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Might be the most important thing you read today. This has been true of ed tech generally, and AI exacerbates the problems Burch explains.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Academic sees word count quickly increasing when he actually starts writing.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I’m a pretty cynical person, yet I never thought I’d live to see a post-Jim Crow American political party take the position that “racist pogroms are good actually.”
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I use to think there were only two types of people on the metro during rush hour. Those who keep their backpacks on (wrong) and those who take them off (correct). Today I found a third: those who enter the train with a full and open bowl of oatmeal
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I love spending almost a full hour of my Monday making phone calls to medical providers and the health insurance company 🇺🇸🦅
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Yaaaaaay american exceptionalism
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
required viewing, particularly for folks who think pushing AI onto students is a good idea.
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AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Brazil bans Kalshi and Polymarket from operating in the country. obviously things aren't perfect there but I think we need to think seriously about how to get institutions like theirs
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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Trump doesn’t know they exist. This was Vought continuing his crusade to destroy American science
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I just clicked on the hashtag and there two of us using it!
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a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a group of people and says there are dozens of us
ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a group of people and says there are dozens of us
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Eric Kelderman @erickelderman.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#negreg Several times already the dept's negotiator and lawyer have mentioned that the language in the draft regs was not what they would have chosen, suggesting that it was not generated in-house.... Any others hearing something similar?
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
throwing my #highered #negreg comments into the void makes me miss circa 2019 Twitter
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
“higher ed is first and foremost a business” the audible NOPE I just gasped makes me glad I opted to watch the stream rather than attend neg-reg in person this morning
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
My press conference denying the existence of the Streisand Effect has people asking a lot of questions about the Streisand Effect
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
they zip tied children for landlords
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
some bell hooks and some hell books
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Someone sent me this.
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Sam Manley (commissions: waitlist open for 4th Q 2026) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
That I'm getting my US government news from Menswear Guy is perhaps the *least* surprising thing in 2026.
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Third Way Education @thirdwayedu.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
EXTENDED DEADLINE: More students are counting on Pell than ever. Now it’s on Congress to fully fund it. Help us make the case by sharing your story. Submit your testimonial by April 10. bit.ly/4bJZAZH
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De-Katie and Cat-Boo!-ger @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️
David Lynch "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE!"
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Watching this admin push their ideological & thus far illegal wants onto higher ed via accreditation and program participation agreements after trying to use the same levers to protect students' time and tuition for so many years www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... h/t @michaelhgavin.bsky.social
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"...who questioned whether a reference to closing racial gaps in completion rates ran afoul of civil rights law" I hate it here! www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
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ED Removes NACIQI Member Who Voted Against Chair
A McMahon appointee was quietly removed from the committee after casting a dissenting vote for a fellow ED pick for chair. Some members viewed the matter as brazenly partisan.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help
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Christi👻n Rinc🎃n @christianrincon.com · 03/03/2026
what was that about Iran being a theocracy?
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty" Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 02/03/2026
funding USAID (an agency which Trump and Musk illegally destroyed) cost each individual American taxpayer about $64 annually while saving millions of lives around the world. instead, we've got:
my tax dollars attacking with missiles more missiles that are somehow also my tax dollars
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 02/03/2026
Even Orwell didn't think of this shit.
Matthew McConaughey smoking meme
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 02/03/2026
New working paper: I use detailed spending data from HelioCampus to look at universities' non-academic spending. Institutional budget models and centralization appear to influence administrative spending, and there are some strategic decisions made during tough budget years. (1/)
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Exploring Factors Influencing Administrative Spending in Higher Education
Despite increasing financial challenges facing much of higher education, relatively little is known about how institutions allocate resources to different activities, particularly in areas other than ...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Etcetera etcetera we are all LowerEd www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
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Students say NC State cybersecurity course left them in debt and without prospects
NC State offers an online cybersecurity bootcamp powered by a third-party company. Some students say it made false promises.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 01/03/2026
hate congress, love sara jacobs
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Uh, I was just on a panel at the ACE conference in which I asked a co-panelist, “will we see immigration action on campus?” [I knew the answer was yes]
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
They're still trying to "spur innovation" out of the "accreditation market" The Devos 2019 accreditation rules were supposed to do that by letting schools seek approval from any accreditor, even outside of old regional boundaries. Here's a live look from inside the Education Department today:
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Look, there’s sports and then there’s men’s “sports.”
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.
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Alexandra @alexandratx.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm, etc
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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 19/02/2026
Reminder that this man's acolytes got control of the Heritage Foundation; this shit won't end with Trump by a long shot
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
To believe that things like institutional governance and campus climate have nothing to do with institutional quality and eventual student outcomes is foolish. (Yes, this post is about Nicholas Kent's plans for college accreditation.)
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Excellent report from friends over at TCF showing which states effectively get financial aid to students (& institutions) who need it most. Conclusion: "States that distribute financial aid using need as the only criteria generate more equitable funding outcomes for students."
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Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
listening to a higher ed podcast unquestioningly hype up AI and the self-proclaimed non-higher ed person who is a C-suite leader at an ed-tech company says: "you have to embrace AI because it is here to stay"
Bugs Bunny emphatically says "NO"
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
America vs América
CLIMATEWIRE:
Trump enlists military to rescue coal
The Department of Energy has identified more than three dozen coal plants that could power military installations, according to one official.CLIMATEWIRE:
Colombia plans summit to wind down fossil fuels
The South American country is hosting an informal climate summit as progress stalls at U.N.-organized conferences.
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