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@AdamHSays

Staff writer at The Atlantic. Native southerner.

aharris@theatlantic.com
Joined October 2009
Born on June 26

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    Aug 28

    Most tweets would be better as not tweets.

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  3. 9 hours ago

    "There is much discussion about the friendship which exists between the mayor and the superintendent. What is more important that our leaders be friends or that they be competent?"

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    10 hours ago

    The truth is, race is actually the proxy for school quality, not test scores -- because white parents correlate even a 2 percent increase in black students with a decline in school quality. All the facts on how integration does not harm white kids won't do a thing about that.

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  5. "Before the shooting, Westerfield always said he would quit or retire early if something like this happened. 'I’m not dying on the job,' he would quip. But returning felt like a sacred duty."

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  6. "Teachers now earn about 20 percent less than other college-educated workers"

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    Sep 4

    If you're tuning in for tonight's congressional race in Massachusetts between Ayanna Pressley and incumbent Rep. Capuano, here's a thread of our coverage of the race, which has been comprehensive

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    Sep 4
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    Sep 4

    "Twitter becomes less bad once you accept that all tweets are bad." is at it again casually dropping some shrewd wisdom as he heads out the door for the day.

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  11. Sep 4

    Let people live their lives in peace.

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    Sep 4

    I just cannot disappoint my students by saying we are closing at 12:30 due to weather- they won’t accept that. So I hereby proclaim today a Half-Day Birthday Holiday (yeah- that works). 🐝

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    Aug 28

    Most tweets would be better as not tweets.

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    Sep 4

    Join GT's Provost & leaders from , , , at Gallup in DC on Sept 6th at 9:00 am for a discussion moderated by & on "Reimagining Higher Education to Engage Learners for Life." RSVP:

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  16. Sep 4

    "Americans have an unfortunate tendency to see U.S. history as an epic, sweeping narrative with a Hollywood-style happy ending. That false promise of the final triumph... is one reason why America’s struggles with racism remain so persistent"

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    I spent six months investigating China's influence in American universities, and I found an epidemic of self-censorship. Most worryingly, Columbia University cancelled several talks because they were afraid of offending the Communist Party.

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  18. Sep 4

    Yoga was listed at the top of the Alabama's department of education's list of "inappropriate activities."

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    Sep 4

    and eight months ago we were reading about kids sitting in Baltimore classrooms in winter coats and gloves because the boilers didn't work

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  20. Sep 4

    "More often than not, the true history and legacy of slavery takes a back seat to tales of founding-era exceptionalism."

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    "Figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and the trio of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham have attained wealth and power by exploiting the fears of older white people." on fighting back against those who demonize the press:

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