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
· 10 min read
Education
A collection of 391 posts
The Misguided Moral Panic About Racism in British Universities
The scope of individual autonomy is rapidly being eroded by measures designed to engineer an inclusive society.
Wanjiru Njoya and Doug Stokes
· 19 min read
The Suffocation of Academic Freedom by the Research Excellence Framework
Lord Robbins went on to stress that academics should have the freedom to “speculate and investigate as the spirit moves one, and to publish without restraint.”
Rumy Hasan
· 5 min read
Read Your Enemies
Sometimes only a solitary family resemblance—a single argument, framework or notion—is passed from parent to progeny, yet the imprint is vivid enough.
James Walker
· 4 min read
An Orwelexicon for Bias and Dysfunction in Psychology and Academia
They argued that “mansplaining” was just the “tip of the iceberg” and so coined terms such as “Himpediment,” defined as a “man who stands in the way of progress of women.”
Lee Jussim
· 5 min read
The Public School Teacher Attrition Crisis
The solution doesn’t have to be so complicated.
Elizabeth Emery
· 11 min read
How Most American Kids Are Kept Out of the Best Public Schools
Abolishing attendance zones will not make the problems of our education system disappear overnight.
Tim DeRoche
· 16 min read
Reflections on Intersectionality
Different forms of suffering cannot easily be quantified and compared.
Coleman Hughes
· 7 min read
Demoted and Placed on Probation
One young man said to me, “How did you get tenure?” When I said that I didn’t have tenure he said, “Good! Because you’re not going to get it.”
Stuart Reges
· 14 min read
My University’s Plan for a Brave New World
The plan’s introduction, “Jobs as Central to Life,” starts by praising the liberal arts. But like Hamlet’s insincere Player Queen, it doth protest too much.
Jacob Howland
· 6 min read
Accessibility, Ableism, and the Decline of Excellence
Differences that benefit the individual (beauty, intelligence, wealth, initiative) can only be understood as unfair privileges, while differences that do not redound to the individual’s benefit can only be made into disabilities which ultimately perpetuate inequity.
Adam Ellwanger
· 13 min read
How to Tackle the Unfolding Research Crisis
The poor and worsening position of research is not self-correcting, and the sector needs to be redirected towards the solution of real world problems and developing an effective predictive capability.
Les Coleman
· 8 min read
Australia’s PISA Shock
Reforming Australia’s national curriculum to make it more knowledge-rich, as has happened in England, would be a step in the right direction.
Greg Ashman
· 8 min read
Dual-Enrollment—Effective Strategies or Seductive Stratagems?
Lawmakers who examined various incarnations of dual-enrollment programs were stunned to find students earning college credits for taking gym.
Steve Salerno
· 8 min read
Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class—A Status Update
The chief purpose of luxury beliefs is to indicate evidence of the believer’s social class and education.
Rob Henderson
· 12 min read