What Is #DisruptTexts?
The disrupters rely on rhetorical devices such as replacing the passive “under-represented” with the active “marginalized,” “erased,” and “excluded.”
Lona Manning
· 9 min read
Education
A collection of 395 posts
Black and White in the Classroom
I also needed to say that they had it all wrong, that the white privilege they were arguing about was actually opportunity and nothing else.
Lola Jean Benjamin
· 4 min read
Race and Social Panic at Haverford: A Case Study in Educational Dysfunction
Not so long ago, one might have been able to count on the naturally oppositional reflexes of young adults as a counterbalance to this kind of crowdsourced social panic.
Jonathan Kay
· 24 min read
I’m a Professor from an Immigrant Family. Please Stop Telling Me That My University Is Racist
What’s worse, anyone who points out the nonsensical and performative aspects of these presidential letters will be gaslit for his troubles—this, in a supposed citadel of logic and learning.
Theodore Pennington
· 7 min read
Shoulders of Giants
Concepts do not have a fixed lifespan. Some concepts are more enduring than others because they have more value.
Greg Ashman
· 12 min read
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
· 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 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
· 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
· 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
· 13 min read
The Lawrence Mead Affair
If someone puts forward a controversial theory, others should have the chance to criticise it.
Noah Carl
· 6 min read
For Some Adjunct Professors, It's Speak Your Mind versus Keep Your Job
Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 10 min read