Education - Quillette (Page 10)

The Fragility of Modern Education in the Time of COVID-19

The COVID-related disruptions of schooling have scattered hundreds of millions of children and adolescents across an archipelago of small islands that are not well-suited to fostering modern educational goals.

David C. Geary

22 Nov 2020 · 15 min read

Workers vs. Wokeness at Smith College: Campus Social Justice as a Luxury Good

For poor black people who live genuinely marginalized lives, and who will never set foot on a campus like Oberlin, racism is a real evil that affects their lives.

Jonathan Kay

17 Nov 2020 · 17 min read

The Failing Business Model of American Universities

Troubling data on annual borrowing from the College Board show the types of loans taken.

Eric Jansen

3 Nov 2020 · 9 min read

I Signed Up to Study Sexual Health. What I Got Was Gender Ideology, Fetishism, and Porn

The Sexual Health Certificate Program is a prestigious University of Michigan program conducted in affiliation with the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT).

Tim Courtois

31 Oct 2020 · 17 min read

Who Speaks for Black Lives Matter? The Answer Can Be Complicated

As one might imagine, it generally is opposed by many Black Lives Matter supporters, as they disagree with any implied parallel between racist treatment of blacks and the occupational hazards of police work.

Steven Volynets

16 Oct 2020 · 13 min read

The Lawrence Mead Affair

If someone puts forward a controversial theory, others should have the chance to criticise it.

Noah Carl

13 Oct 2020 · 6 min read

For Some Adjunct Professors, It's Speak Your Mind versus Keep Your Job

Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor

8 Oct 2020 · 8 min read

Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab

The University of Washington, like most schools, tracks the performance of student groups as part of its effort to enhance diversity and reduce inequality.

Stuart Reges

29 Sep 2020 · 15 min read

Deception and Complicity—the Strange Case of Jessica Krug

But the real scandal—not discussed much in the media—wasn’t Krug’s decade of duplicity.

Charlotte Allen

25 Sep 2020 · 9 min read

Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School

The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism.

Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller

23 Sep 2020 · 10 min read

Ordeal by Title IX

This approach has been greeted with hostility by many colleagues. This is understandable, for it challenges humanists to climb down from the ivory tower and make their research directly relevant to the public.

Robert Frodeman

13 Aug 2020 · 27 min read

Look Who’s Talking About Educational Equity

However well intentioned, these programs will likely increase inequities rather than reduce them, and push the nation’s colleges still closer to the low level of its public schools.

Lyell Asher

12 Aug 2020 · 7 min read

How to Fight the Enemies of Academic Freedom

Even though large tracts of our cultural landscape and many old and famous American institutions have fallen or may fall into the grip of this hostile ideology and all the odious apparatus of cancel culture rule, we shall not flag or fail.

Sergiu Klainerman

10 Aug 2020 · 6 min read

Cultural Revolution in the Renaissance?

The problem with this picture of the Renaissance is not that it has no truth to it—it certainly has some—but that it is perversely unbalanced.

James Hankins

29 Jul 2020 · 8 min read

Princeton University is One of the Least Racist Institutions in the World

In his declaration of independence published in Quillette, Katz, a chaired professor in the Classics department, defends the importance of free speech in academia and accuses the authors of the letter of trying to impose unreasonable changes at Princeton.

Sergiu Klainerman

27 Jul 2020 · 6 min read