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• What a boob: Texas school district bans Virginia state flag and seal over naked breast

  18-04-2025 22:21
  Students in Lamar can no longer learn about the state of Virginia on their online research database due to the banVirginia’s state flag and seal, depicting the Roman goddess Virtus standing over a slain tyrant, her drooping toga exposing her left breast, has been banned from younger students in a Texas school district.The district, Lamar consolidated independent school district, near Houston, took action against the image late last year when it removed a section about Virginia from its onl
  
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• What would it mean for Trump to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status?

  18-04-2025 21:59
  
  After cutting off $2.26bn in funding, the US president reportedly gave the IRS a potentially illegal orderHarvard University is in a standoff with Donald Trump after rejecting a series of demands from the president’s administration, which critics view as an attack on the elite college for its reputation among conservatives as a bastion of liberal thought.After cutting off its funding, Trump has reportedly given the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a potentially illegal order to revoke the un
  
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• Pundits see a ‘diploma divide’ in politics. They’re focused on the wrong thing | Dustin Guastella

  18-04-2025 16:00
  Education level is viewed as a key factor in how people vote. But it’s dangerous to overlook the question of classSince about 2020, a number of researchers have determined that the most salient divide in politics today is the diploma divide – that is, the division between those who have a four-year college degree and those who do not. Those who have a degree are more liberal, those who don’t are less. The former tend to vote for Democrats, the latter for Republicans.There is a
  
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• Harvard shows resistance is possible. But universities must join forces | Jan-Werner Müller

  18-04-2025 12:00
  Far too many academics are repeating propaganda about a ‘free speech crisis’. It’s time for a shared strategyHarvard is refusing the plainly illegal demands by the Trump administration. That sends an important signal: resistance is possible.But universities must realize that the government is adopting a divide-and-rule tactic: they should collaborate on a shared litigation strategy, take a common approach in getting the public on their side, and do everything possible to have C
  
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• 'Our dad's a teacher - this is how we deal with revision stress at home'

  18-04-2025 07:02 via bbc.com
  Three teenagers and their teacher dad give some top tips on how to survive the stressful exam period.
  
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• America’s universities stand up to Trump – podcast

  18-04-2025 06:00
  This week, Harvard University, the oldest and wealthiest in the US, defied Donald Trump a list of demands. The Trump administration responded by freezing $2.2bn in federal funding for the Ivy League school.This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Harvard professor Ryan Enos to consider why the university is pushing back, how far this fight may go and why other universities are watching closelyArchive: ABC News, Bloomberg News, CBS News, CNN, National Conservatism, NBC News, Scripp News Contin
  
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