Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦💪🏼
I write a book about Stalin all day and it's depressing. Oh, and tennis tweets. Expect them.
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- Reposted by Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦💪🏼OPINION: "In 2020, there were about 4,800 Jews in India, but almost 85,000 Jews with Indian roots live in Israel," Samira Mehta writes.
- Reposted by Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦💪🏼Reuters: US APPEALS COURT ALLOWS TUFTS UNIVERSITY STUDENT RUMEYSA OZTURK TO BE TRANSFERRED TO VERMONT TO CHALLENGE IMMIGRATION DETENTION
- Reposted by Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦💪🏼Someone should write a book about how White people weaponize contrarianism.
- Reposted by Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦💪🏼*deep sigh* You were warned. It was written down for literally anyone to read for over a year. www.ap.org/news-highlig...
- Reposted by Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦💪🏼🍽️Empty plates thanks to Republicans' cruel budget and DOGE. Trump and Republicans want the largest cuts to SNAP and Medicaid in history. Cutting $230 BILLION from SNAP is not "fiscal responsibility." It's cruelty. It's hungry kids, veterans, seniors. We won't stand for it.
- Reposted by Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦💪🏼So if you're mad that students are skimming rather than doing the deep research, if you're mad that they're just putting opinions out there based on a few things they read online taken as truth, if you want that all to end, I have a very simple message for you: You first.
- Reposted by Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦💪🏼FWIW, I've been typing since 7th grade in 1968 because my handwriting was so atrocious, and my Olivetti portable traveled the world with me on trains, planes and hitchhiking forays on autos, trucks and motorcycles.
- Reposted by Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦💪🏼Very much appreciate Catherine holding the line on nuance. Generational panic is lame-o. Super interesting thread on how people (esp media) making sweeping claims about AI ruining students' brains:
- Ok I got famous a few years back for taking apart research that claimed that students learned less from key-stroking than through handwriting, so let's do this thing. What exactly are the studies that show "reduced critical-thinking effort." How was that effort defined? Send me the study. Whoever.
- Bleak. nymag.com/intelligence...
- Bleak. nymag.com/intelligence...
