Education - Quillette (Page 11)

COVID-19 Will (Finally) Force American Universities to Reinvent Themselves

Polarization is baked into the current system, and no reform program will completely level the playing field.

23 Jul 2020 · 6 min read

In Defence of the Humanities

Scholars in the humanities are the bearers of the memory of civilisation, and their role in our society is indispensable.

Elena Shalneva

14 Jul 2020 · 8 min read

In Defense of ‘Reactionary Liberalism’—A Reply to Osita Nwanevu

Nwanevu is predictably coy about affirmative action, the most explicit form of institutional racism in the United States.

Bo Winegard

13 Jul 2020 · 10 min read

On Steve Hsu and the Campaign to Thwart Free Inquiry

It is not unreasonable to consider avoiding research that risks creating unmanageable divisions.

Peter Toshev

1 Jul 2020 · 6 min read

Exploring 'Other Ways of Knowing': The New Religious Threat to Science Education

In its most elaborate form, EDI subjects science to the same treatment as has already been meted out to the Western literary canon: a relentless deconstruction whereby each axiom, value, and commitment is presented as infected by cultural imperialism.

Lenny Pier Ramos

20 Jun 2020 · 12 min read

Bad Vibrations: The Lies Universities Tell Their Students about Sex

Universities are free to promote sexual experimentation. But they should be honest that pushing norms and boundaries involves making mistakes.

Samantha Harris and Michael Thad Allen

17 Jun 2020 · 14 min read

COVID-19 Has Exposed Critical Weaknesses in Global Higher Education

While the pandemic has been challenging for everyone, let’s hope the disruption that is taking place in higher education is the beginning of a broader reform movement that refocuses the emphasis on the learner and how instructors and faculty can empower them to create value in the marketplace.

Christos A. Makridis and Soula Parassidis

29 May 2020 · 6 min read

The Fight over Alternative Education

Bartholet’s polemic is by no means simply directed at homeschooling all by itself. It is part of a larger—and relatively recent—specific animus among progressive academics and politicians against a range of alternatives to conventional public schooling

Charlotte Allen

23 May 2020 · 16 min read

Declining Med School Standards in a Time of Pandemic

The language of the social justice Left began appearing in diversity statements at even the most elite schools.

Steve Salerno

11 Apr 2020 · 6 min read

The Misleading Racial Achievement Gap Statistic

As it turns out, focusing too heavily on closing the racial achievement gap to the exclusion of other priorities can be counterproductive to a school system’s mission and purpose, which is to educate all its students.

Kenny Xu

17 Mar 2020 · 6 min read

I've Been Fired. If You Value Academic Freedom, That Should Worry You

I did not enjoy the protection of tenure (I was, however, tenure-track), but we should not rely upon tenure to uphold free inquiry.

Bo Winegard

6 Mar 2020 · 7 min read

Making Homer and Vergil Optional at Oxford Won't 'Diversify' Classics

Most of us in Classics presumably read some Homer and/or Vergil at some point during our undergraduate careers, at least in translation, but there is no mandate that we do so.

Solveig Lucia Gold

24 Feb 2020 · 7 min read

On the Study of Great Books

Great books require intelligence and judgment, and the exploration of sometimes quite fundamental disagreement, from the outset.

Andrew Gleeson

23 Feb 2020 · 18 min read

Lee Jussim Is Right to Be Skeptical about 'Stereotype Threat'

Di Angelo’s writing about stereotype threat, white fragility, structural oppression and so on, on the other hand, is more like dogma than scientific theory.

Jonathan Church

22 Feb 2020 · 6 min read

Yale against Western Art

Once word got out that this year would be the curtain call for the two introductory Western art courses, students stampeded to enroll.

Heather Mac Donald

13 Feb 2020 · 10 min read