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    As an international student, I honestly don’t know how good an indicator the GRE is, at least for students whose…

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    This might filter out intelligent neurodivergent students who struggle with timed admissions tests.

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    When jt comes to students’ ability to do advanced logic, the math section of the GRE is more valuable than…

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The Texas war on academic freedom: Texas Tech University system edition

An outright ban on any teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity! As philosopher Alex Byrne observed on Twitter:

Want to write your thesis on the fraternal birth order effect? (Gay men tend to have more older brothers.) Nope. “Graduate theses and dissertations may only center on SOGI topics as a strictly temporary teach-out exception, explicitly limited to currently enrolled students.” Want to study Rach Cosker-Rowland’s book on Gender Identity? How about classic psychological works that invoke gender identity, e.g. Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of gender development?

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