TikTok, Right to be Rude, College Degree Requirements

TikTok [01:27]

Exclusive: TikTok’s CEO on the App’s Future in the U.S. (WSJ/The Journal., 3/20/23)
TikTok CEO’s Message to Washington: A Sale Won’t Solve Security Concerns (Wall Street Journal, 3/16/23)
Pulling the Plug on TikTok Will Be Harder Than It Looks (The New York Times, 3/21/23)
As Senate pushes a ban, what will happen to TikTok? (CBS, 3/21/23)
U.S. Threatens Ban if TikTok’s Chinese Owners Don’t Sell Stakes (Wall Street Journal, 3/15/23)
Justice Dept. Investigating TikTok’s Owner Over Possible Spying on Journalists (The New York Times, 3/17/23)
How TikTok broke social media (The Economist, 3/21/23)
TikTok caught in US-China battle over its powerful algorithm (Financial Times, 3/22/23)
9 questions about the threats to ban TikTok, answered (Vox, 3/16/23)
What TikTok does to your mental health (The Guardian, 10/30/22)
TikTok Spied on Forbes Journalists (Forbes, 12/22/22)
What a TikTok ban would mean for users (NBC, 3/18/23)
China Says It Opposes a Forced Sale of TikTok (Wall Street Journal, 3/23/23)
Testimony Before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce (Shou Chew, Written Testimony, 3/23/23)
Finding a Buyer for TikTok May Not Be So Easy (The New York Times, 3/16/23)
TikTok bans spread globally (Axios, 3/21/23)

Right to be Rude [23:20]

Residents’ Right to Be Rude Upheld by Massachusetts Supreme Court (The New York Times, 3/17/23)
Massachusetts Protects the Right to Be ‘Rude’ in Town Meetings (Brennan Center, 3/14/23)
Free speech or out of order? As meetings grow wild, officials try to tame public comment (Washington Post, 1/17/23)
School boards get death threats amid rage over race, gender, mask policies (Reuters, 2/15/22)
Managing Angry Mobs Disrupting Governing Board Meetings (Institute for Local Government, 3/22)
Citizens can be rude in public meetings, Mass. high court rules (Morning Brew, 3/17/23)
Court Rules Being Rude to Politicians is Protected Speech (The Young Turks/YouTube, 3/18/23)
SJC says it’s OK to be ‘rude’ at public meetings (Commonwealth Magazine, 3/9/23)
Angry, violent, toxic: How extremists are drowning out local California governments (The Sacramento Bee, 11/21/21)
We finally have proof that remote working is making people ruder (Wired, 9/17/21)
‘Why You Gotta Be So Rude?’ PSU Study Highlights ‘Vicious Cycle’ of Workplace Incivility (Portland State University, 8/9/21)
Who is Behind the Attacks on Educators and Public Schools? (National Education Association, 12/14/21)
Louise Barron et al vs. Daniel Kolena et al (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 3/7/23)
ACLU Massachusetts letter to Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association on how cities and towns can conduct orderly and efficient govt meetings (ACLU, 3/10/23)
​​On The Frontlines of Today’s Cities: Trauma, Challenges and Solutions (National League of Cities, 2021)
Local Election Officials Survey (Brennan Center, 3/22)
ACLU Brief on Barron v. Kolena (Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 10/12/22)
Appellant Brief Barron v. Kolena (Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 10/11/22)
Appellee Southborough Brief Barron v. Kolena (Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 5/18/22)
Lousie Barron v. Southborough Board of Selectmen(Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts/YouTube, 3/3/23)

College Degree Requirements [36:40]

I didn’t finish college — and society should quit stigmatizing that (Rikki Schlott, New York Post, 3/9/23)
Stop requiring college degrees for jobs that don’t need them (Vox, Rachel Cohen, 3/19/23)
No college degree? No problem. More companies are eliminating requirements to attract the workers they need (CNBC, 4/27/22)
US Companies Are Scratching College Degrees From Job Ads (The Hill, 12/23/22)
Major companies dropping college requirements for new hires (NewsNation, 1/23/23)
See Workers as Workers, Not as a College Credential (The New York Times, 1/28/23)
The Disparate Racial Impact of Requiring a College Degree (WSJ Opinion, 6/28/20)
34% OF COMPANIES ELIMINATED COLLEGE DEGREE REQUIREMENTS TO INCREASE NUMBER OF APPLICANTS IN PAST YEAR (Intelligent, 2/16/23)
Dismissed by Degrees: How degree inflation is undermining U.S. competitiveness and hurting America’s middle class (Harvard Business School, 2017)
Jobs requiring college degrees disqualify most U.S. workers — especially workers of color (PBS/YouTube, 10/26/21)
10 facts about today’s college graduates (Pew Research Center, 4/12/22)
A growing number of Americans are questioning the value of going to college (NPR, 6/26/23)
The Emerging Degree Reset (Harvard Business School/The Burning Glass Institute, 2022)

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