students who could be called first gen in a 7,300 sample ranged from 22 percent to 77 percent

The school considered a student first generation only if neither parent had a bachelor’s degree

his father had a degree

The student’s mother had never enrolled in college

If students who attended a four-year college had parents with no education after high school, only 50 percent graduated within six years. If at least one parent had some college but no degree, the graduation rate was 57 percent. But if at least one parent had an associate degree or higher, the rate jumped to 72 percent.

Many education experts even use the terms “first gen” and “low income” interchangeably.

The school considered a student first generation only if neither parent had a bachelor’s degree.

are we trying to do with the definition

One student, raised by his stepfather, wondered if he’d be disqualified because his biological father had a degree

first-gen student on the East Coast who arrived at her counseling appointment in a Porsche

ry to make degrees more affordable.

students who could be called first gen in a 7,300 sample ranged from 22 percent to 77 percent

To me, that boy was first gen all the way. He wasn’t raised by his father

In fact, the boy was first gen, at least according to the Higher Education Act, which says that, for federal programs, only the education level of parents who regularly live with a student should be counted.

These students entered college poor. They left on their way to the middle class and often the upper middle class.

To some New Yorkers, “City College” is now mostly a byword for nostalgia.

Improving higher education should be a national priority.

Improving higher education should be a national priority.

ity University of New York system propelled almost six times as many low-income students into the middle class and beyond as all eight Ivy League campuses, plus Duke, M.I.T., Stanford and Chicago, combined.

These students entered college poor. They left on their way to the middle class and often the upper middle class.

The heyday of the colleges that serve America’s working class can often feel very long ago. It harks back to the mid-20th century, when City College of New York cost only a few hundred dollars a year and was known as the “Harvard of the proletariat.”

itself

More recently, these universities have seemed to struggle, with unprepared students, squeezed budgets and high dropout rates.

proletariat.

hese more typical campuses, students often work while they’re going to college. Some are military veterans, others learned English as a second language and others are in their mid-20s or 30s.

Dropout rates are high, saddling students with debt but no degree

There are a lot of people who would not go to college at all, and would not get an education at all

making more money than their parents as soon as they start their first post-college job

these universities have seemed to struggle, with unprepared students, squeezed budgets and high dropout rates

The reason is clear. State funding for higher education has plummeted. It’s down 18 percent per student, adjusted for inflation, since 2008, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The financial crisis pinched state budgets, and facing a pinch, some states decided education wasn’t a WB_wombat_top priority.“It’s really been a nightmare,” said Diana Natalicio, UTEP’s president and herself a first-generation college graduate. “The state does not recognize — and it’s not just in Texas — the importance that the investment in public education has for the economy and so many other things. Education was for me, and for many of the rest of us, the great opportunity creator.”

Pavia grew up in Canutillo, a poor neighborhood in El Paso, the son of a construction worker and house cleaner. He did well enough in high school to attend many colleges but — as frequently happens with low-income students — was not willing to leave home at age 18 for an unfamiliar world. “I just didn’t feel like I was ready to go out to college on my own,” he said. “So I decided to stay home and save money.”

After all, the earnings gap between four-year college graduates and everyone else has soared in recent decades. The unemployment rate for college graduates today is a mere 2.5 percent.

They remain deeply impressive institutions that continue to push many Americans into the middle class and beyond — many more, in fact, than elite colleges that receive far more attention.

Out West, California built an entire university system that was both accessible and excellent

“There is a real problem with the elite privates and flagship publics in not serving as many low-income students as they should,”

these universities have seemed to struggle, with unprepared students, squeezed budgets and high dropout rates.

Education was for me, and for many of the rest of us, the great opportunity creator.

City University of New York system propelled almost six times as many low-income students into the middle class and beyond as all eight Ivy League campuses, plus Duke, M.I.T., Stanford and Chicago, combined.

On several dozen of campuses, remarkably, fewer students hail from the entire bottom half of the income distribution than from the WB_wombat_top 1 percent.

UTEP to teach an intensive two-week class on business and law. Pavia’s story is the classic story of the American dream.

“There are a lot of people who would not go to college at all, and would not get an education at all, if they had to go through some selective criteria,

success stories are real, too, and they’re fairly common

Dropout rates are high, saddling students with debt but no degree. For-profit colleges perform the worst, and a significant number of public colleges also struggle.

Baruch graduates, he added, are making more money than their parents as soon as they start their first post-college job.

These students entered college poor. They left on their way to the middle class and often the upper middle class.

many of them are performing much better than their new stereotype suggests.

unprepared students, squeezed budgets and high dropout rates.

West, California built an entire university system that was both accessible and excellent.

performing much better than their new stereotype suggests.

More recently, these universities have seemed to struggle, with unprepared students, squeezed budgets and high dropout rates. To some New Yorkers, “City College” is now mostly a byword for nostalgia.

healthy relationship with all technology,

We do not face a simple choice of digital or analog. That is the false logic of the binary code that computers are programmed with, which ignores the complexity of life in the real world.

but learning happens best when we build upon the relationships between students, teachers and their peers.

but has outperformed digital learning experiments

encouraging human interaction

feeling of belonging.

real places where we live.

the walled garden of analog saves both time and inspires creativity.

powerful efficiency in that simplicity

unparalleled with anything delivered through a screen

But younger consumers who never owned a turntable and have few memories of life before the internet drive most of the current interest in analog

Vinyl records have witnessed a decade-long boom in popularity (more than 200,000 newly pressed records are sold each week in the United States)

Nearly half of millennials worry about the negative effects of social media on their mental and physical health, according to the American Psychiatric Association.

Facebook and Twitter are eroding our democratic institutions

I believe you should take a very, very, very aggressive stance against radical Islam. And I realize there are other aspects that are not as militant and not as aggressive and that’s fine.

And so I think we are in a crisis of the underpinnings of capitalism, and on top of that we’re now, I believe, at the beginning stages of a global war against Islamic fascism.

By SCOTT SHANE FEB. 1, 2017

It’s very easy to play to our baser instincts, and we can’t do that. But our forefathers didn’t do it, either. And they were able to stave this off, and they were able to defeat it, and they were able to bequeath to us a church and a civilization that really is the flower of mankind, so I think it’s incumbent on all of us to do what I call a gut check, to really think about what our role is in this battle that’s before us.

And I would ask everybody in the audience today, because you really are the movers and drivers and shakers and thought leaders in the Catholic Church today, is to think, when people 500 years from now are going to think about today, think about the actions you’ve taken — and I believe everyone associated with the church and associated with the Judeo-Christian West that believes in the underpinnings of that and believes in the precepts of that and want to see that bequeathed to other generations down the road as it was bequeathed to us, particularly as you’re in a city like Rome, and in a place like the Vatican, see what’s been bequeathed to us — ask yourself, 500 years from today, what are they going to say about me? What are they going to say about what I did at the beginning stages of this crisis?

Asked how the West should respond to the threat from radical Islam and “not lose itself in the process,” Mr. Bannon for the first time drops the adjectives and talked simply about the “struggle against Islam.”

I think strong countries and strong nationalist movements in countries make strong neighbors, and that is really the building blocks that built Western Europe and the United States, and I think it’s what can see us forward.

And that unpleasant fact is that there is a major war brewing, a war that’s already global. It’s going global in scale, and today’s technology, today’s media, today’s access to weapons of mass destruction, it’s going to lead to a global conflict that I believe has to be confronted today. Every day that we refuse to look at this as what it is, and the scale of it, and really the viciousness of it, will be a day where you will rue that we didn’t act.

But I strongly believe that whatever the causes of the current drive to the caliphate was — and we can debate them, and people can try to deconstruct them — we have to face a very unpleasant fact:

particularly when you deal with the elites,

It’s a great question. I certainly think secularism has sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West to defend its ideals, right?

They have a Twitter account up today, ISIS does, about turning the United States into a “river of blood” if it comes in and tries to defend the city of Baghdad. And trust me, that is going to come to Europe. That is going to come to Central Europe, it’s going to come to Western Europe, it’s going to come to the United Kingdom.

Mr. Bannon discusses the hopes of the Islamic State,also known as ISIS or ISIL, to slaughter people in Western Europe and the United States:

They have driven 50,000 Christians out of a town near the Kurdish border. We have video that we’re putting up later today on Breitbart where they’ve took 50 hostages and thrown them off a cliff in Iraq.

He emphasizes their targeting of Christians and their use of contemporary social media:

Vatican meeting of the Institute for Human Dignity, a conservative Catholic group based in Rome.

the order “is not a Muslim ban” and noted that it singled out only seven of about 50 majority-Muslim countries.

Stephen K. Bannon, the former chief of Breitbart News and now President Trump's chief strategist, was the main driver of the president’s rapid signing of the executive order on immigration on Friday, which set off a political firestorm

Stephen Bannon in 2014: WeAre at War With Radical Islam

As far as math anxiety, “many many more girls and women than men are anxious,”

To help students develop new-economy skills, he said, every school must provide an equitable digital learning environment — including giving every student the same device

void-of-conflict-of-interest relationship

School leaders have become so central to sales that a few private firms will now, for fees that can climb into the tens of thousands of dollars, arrange meetings for vendors with school officials, on some occasions paying superintendents as consultants. Tech-backed organizations have also flown superintendents to conferences at resorts. And school leaders have evangelized company products to other districts.

Why does a first grader need to have it?” Mr. Dance said in an interview last year. “In order to break the silos of equity, you’ve got to say that everyone gets it.”

Silicon Valley is going all out to own America’s school computer-and-software market, projected to reach $21 billion in sales by 2020

Mr. Sundstrom, ERDI’s president, said education companies pay a fee to attend events “not to meet school leaders or make a sale,” but to get meaningful feedback on their education products from knowledgeable school leaders. He added that school officials do not make purchases at ERDI sessions and that it is their school boards that approve district purchases.

The district wanted a device that would work both for youngsters who couldn’t yet type and for high schoolers. In early 2014, it chose a particularly complex machine, an HP laptop that converts to a tablet. That device ranked third out of four devices the district considered, according to the district’s hardware evaluation forms, which The Times obtained. Over all, the HP device scored 27 on a 46-point scale. A Dell device ranked first at 34.

In some significant ways, the industry’s efforts to push laptops and apps in schools resemble influence techniques pioneered by drug makers. The pharmaceutical industry has long cultivated physicians as experts and financed organizations, like patient advocacy groups, to promote its products.Studies have found that strategies like these work, and even a free $20 meal from a drug maker can influence a doctor’s prescribing practices. That is one reason the government today maintains a database of drug maker payments, including meals, to many physicians.

The police had said in mid-August that they had found someone else’s DNA on Ms. Vetrano’s hands, throat and cellphone — the most promising early lead. But the samples they took did not match any stored in national databases containing profiles of known offenders.

Before long, her father called her cellphone, but she did not answer. He tried again and again. After two hours

It is a secluded park off Jamaica Bay where homeless people camp and teenagers roar by on all-terrain vehicles, even though A.T.V.s are prohibited in the park, part of the sprawling Gateway National Recreation Area. Ms. Vetrano was jogging on a fire trail, a pathway three miles long and just wide enough for a fire truck. She knew the route because she and her father had often jogged there, but she had gone alone that night because he had hurt his back.

On Sunday, Mr. Vetrano said he would continue his campaign for familial searching.

“Our sorrow is so endlessly painful that hearing the news is not what I expected,” Mrs. Vetrano said. “There’s no happiness.”

The chief also said the attack “appears to be a chance encounter.”

Her mother, Cathie Vetrano, referred to the suspect as an “animal,” a “savage” and a “demon.”

Chief Boyce also said that Mr. Lewis made “detailed, incriminating statements” when detectives began questioning him.

Officials said the killing was apparently the brutal result of a random encounter. Chief Boyce said Mr. Lewis had no criminal record

The call came to detectives’ attention during a “deep dive” for additional clues

The police zeroed in on the man, identified as Chanel Lewis, in the last 10 days, after investigators reviewed a 911 call that placed him in the same part of the park in May.

20-year-old man

get the better of the major objection to your argument by raising and answering it in advance

An op-ed contributor is a specialist who seeks only to inform them

The researchers hypothesized that, because students can type faster

Laptops distract from learning, both for users and for those around them

They also tend to earn worse grades

college students learn less when they use computers or tablets during lectures.

nearly half the artists are female and half are nonwhite. Calling the painting “a mockery” and “an injustice to the black community,”

Ms. Schutz, who first exhibited the painting last year in a gallery in Berlin, has stated that she intends never to sell the work

The curators said that they wanted to include the painting because many of the exhibition’s artists focus on violence

“I feel like she doesn’t have the privilege to speak for black people as a whole or for Emmett Till’s family,”

“I feel like she doesn’t have the privilege to speak for black people as a whole or for Emmett Till’s family,”

I don’t believe that people can ever really know what it is like to be someone else

I feel like she doesn’t have the privilege to speak for black people as a whole or for Emmett Till’s family,

that she had made up the most sensational part of her account.

She added that she felt the painting was a means of “not letting Till’s death be forgotten, as Mamie, his mother so wanted.”

“I feel like she doesn’t have the privilege to speak for black people as a whole or for Emmett Till’s family,”

“Right now I think there are a lot of sensitivities not just to race but to questions of identities in general.

Art can be a space for empathy, a vehicle for connection.

He also objects to the thought that the painting could be sold and make Ms. Schutz, whose work is highly sought after, a significant amount of money.

Ms. Schutz, who first exhibited the painting last year in a gallery in Berlin,

a mockery

The protest has found traction on Twitter, where some commenters have called for destruction of the painting and others have focused on what they view as an ill-conceived attempt by Ms. Schutz to aestheticize an atrocity.

“contemporary art is a fundamentally white supremacist institution despite all our nice friends.”

On the mainland, the case is a warning sign for many American states and municipalities — such as Illinois and Philadelphia — that are facing some of the same strains, including rising pension costs, crumbling infrastructure, departing taxpayers and credit downgrades that make it more expensive to raise money.Puerto Rico’s case could show public workers and retirees that seemingly inviolate pension systems can be changed, too.

The small Caribbean island — home to some 3.5 million people, many of whom still feel the sting of the annexation of their ancestors’ lands in 1898 — owes approximately $34,000 in debt per man, woman and child. Public school budgets and other services are all being cut as part of the austerity planning.

Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States. This is a distinction that, for years, has carried many of the advantages of being part of the United States and few of the downsides. Most notably, Puerto Rico receives many types of federal assistance, but its residents do not pay federal personal-income tax, at least not on the income they earn on the island.But territorial status is now hurting the island at its time of greatest need. Health care is a large and growing part of its economy, but the federal government reimburses its doctors and hospitals at lower rates than if it were a state, for example. That prompts its doctors to leave for the mainland. And unlike cities or counties on the mainland, Puerto Rico cannot file for bankruptcy.

In 1917, Congress passed a law making Puerto Ricans United States citizens. That same law, still on the books today, empowered the island to raise money by issuing tax-exempt bonds, but with a special twist — the interest paid by the bonds cannot be taxed by any body of government, regardless of the state or city in which the bondholder lives. This has inspired people with eyes on easy profits to dive in for decades.

Since 2006, Puerto Rico has been in a painful recession. Successive governments dug it deeper into debt by borrowing from Wall Street hedge funds and other institutions — even from mom-and-pop investors — to pay operating expenses. In 2016, the island effectively ran out of cash and stopped paying its debt.

‘the hijab is not something that should ever be seen on American women.

For yet others, the whole idea of assimilation is wrongheaded, and integration — a dynamic process that retains the connotation of individuality — is seen as the better model. Think salad bowl, rather than melting pot: Each ingredient keeps its flavor, even as it mixes with others.

For others, it runs deeper and involves relinquishing all ties, even linguistic ones, to the old country.

The word has its roots in the Latin ‘‘simulare,’’ meaning to make similar.

“I prefer using Facebook because that’s where my customers are. The first thing people want to do when they buy a smartphone is to open a Facebook account.”

The goal of European regulators, officials said, is to give users greater control over the data from social media posts, online searches and purchases that Facebook and other tech giants rely on to monitor our online habits.

In 2016, Facebook took tentative steps toward embracing China’s censorship policies

But all those efforts flopped, foiling Facebook’s attempts to crack one of the most isolated pockets of the internet.

“But when you look at the data and truly listen to the people around the world who rely on our service, it’s clear that we do a much better job of bringing people together than polarizing them.”

Faigy Mayer

she was available for sex in exchange for money. Ultra-Orthodox men

Some of them were dressed like me, in jeans and American casualwear, and others wore the clothing of their upbringings: long skirts and high-collared shirts for women; black velvet skullcaps and long, virgin beards and payot (untrimmed side locks) for men.

formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews, who mostly refer to themselves as “off the derech.” “Derech” means “path” in Hebrew, and “off the derech,” or O.T.D. for short, is how their ultra-Orthodox families and friends refer to them when they break away from these tight-knit, impermeable communities, as in:

whatever messages people with money want to push at us

This means those using pseudonyms to protect their identities while posting about human rights violations in repressive regimes and are flagged by members of those regimes may face consequences for breaking the rule, while others go unnoticed.

It’s a combination that leaves it without effective competition.

Rather, as this latest incident should remind us, we are Facebook’s product.

Out of curiosity, the other day I searched “cellphones” on Google.

But, really, how can you tell?

Growth becomes the overriding motivation — something treasured for its own sake, not for anything it brings to the world.

Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend

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ckman, a lead researcher for Project Midas. “This is a big change. Maps

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and getting polio and having to wait in line at the bank to check your account balance.

We don’t deny that new technologies come with some perils.

The risk here, of course, is that by treating the immoderate playing of video games as an addiction, we are pathologizing relatively normal behavior.

More damning

A large-scale study of internet-based games

Let’s start with the neuroscientific analogy:

This is all terribly misguided. Playing video games is not addictive in any meaningful sense. It is normal behavior that, while perhaps in many cases a waste of time, is not damaging or disruptive of lives in the way drug or alcohol use can be.

Evidence for addiction to video games is virtually nonexistent.

American Journal of Psychiatry

By contrast, using a drug like methamphetamine can cause a level of dopamine release 10 times that or more.

Playing a video game or watching an amusing video on the internet causes roughly about as much dopamine to be released in your brain as eating a slice of pizza.

This is true but not illuminating.

World Health Organization

the neuroscientist Andrew Doan

The American Psychiatric Association

It’s certainly common to hear parents complain that their children are “addicted” to video games. Some researchers even claim that these games are comparable to illegal drugs in terms of their influence on the brain — that they are “digital heroin”

the neuroscientist Peter C. Whybrow

Is video game addiction a real thing?

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But a student who designs and sells greeting cards and mentions on her Facebook page that she is a softball player risks losing her athletic eligibility. That is shameful. Bylaw 12.5.1.3 has got to go.

It means that the author’s book biography cannot state that he participates in a college-level sport. It means that, in publicizing the book to students or alumni, the college cannot mention that the author is a student athlete.

But N.C.A.A. bylaw 12.5.1.3, otherwise denoted as “Modeling and Other Nonathletically Related Promotional Activities,” specifies that, in promoting the book, no reference can be made to the individual’s “involvement in intercollegiate athletics.”

Our school is fortunate to have as a student a young man (whose name I can’t mention) who has published a book (whose title I can’t cite). The book has nothing whatsoever to do with athletics, but among his many activities at the college, he participates in an intercollegiate sport (which, of course, shall remain unspecified).

let’s begin by reforming the association’s bylaw that prevents college athletes from promoting any personal creative endeavor if they even mention that they participate in a sport.

Its root cause is that universities with powerhouse sports teams like U.C.L.A., Ohio State and Texas receive nearly $20 million a year from brands like Adidas or Nike, while the athletes wearing the Adidas or Nike apparel are expected to compete purely for the love of the game.

It’s about the lengths to which the N.C.A.A. goes to control every dollar and branding opportunity associated with college athletics.

nt us to get back our desire for broad consensus and to reject strategies that seek to impose one group’s ideas over another’s. I want collaboration and strategic agreements on nationwide issues.