Education - Quillette (Page 13)

The Free-Speech Problem on Australian Campuses Is More CCP than SJW

After years of austerity measures implemented by conservative governments, Australia’s publicly-funded higher-education sector is barely solvent.

Drew Pavlou

8 Nov 2019 · 6 min read

The Culture War in Communication Studies

Communication studies is a broad field, encompassing verbal, written and non-verbal sub-categories.

Terry Newman

7 Nov 2019 · 21 min read

Racial Slurs and Deferential Condescension

We are effectively being told that, at this truth-seeking institution, it is inappropriate for us to utter certain indisputably true statements, because the value of truth is trumped by the emotional states of one or another demographic.

Matthew Small

7 Nov 2019 · 5 min read

Elite Colleges Reconsidered

The admissions brochures like to focus on the statistics, from the number of Noble laureates on staff to the faculty-student ratio.

Erich J. Prince

7 Nov 2019 · 14 min read

Mediocrity for All!

The better approach would be to invest meaningfully in the lousy schools that leave minority children so ill-prepared to compete.

Steve Salerno

25 Oct 2019 · 10 min read

Experiments in Nurturing Classroom Curiosity

In a classroom, curiosity should be sacred, because it motivates the pursuit of knowledge even when that includes ugly truths.

Megan Gafford

24 Oct 2019 · 7 min read

Higher Education's Medievalist Moral Panic

Medievalists of Color promptly issued a statement of support, describing Ramboran-Olm as “a woman of color in an organization so dominated by whiteness that it has not yet ceased referring to itself by a name that attracts and empowers white supremacists.”

Charlotte Allen

22 Oct 2019 · 13 min read

Against Research Ethics Committees

The guidelines ethics committees follow present themselves as universal rules derived from reason.

Paul Oslington

17 Oct 2019 · 13 min read

The Meritocracy Trap—A Review

Workers are instead selected by their educational credentials, even when a degree is unnecessary

John Staddon

9 Oct 2019 · 13 min read

University Harassment Policy and Its Problems

In its effort to protect its students from potentially awkward social interactions, the university is arrogating adult decision-making to the institution.

Marilyn Simon

2 Oct 2019 · 10 min read

In the U.S. Campus Speech Wars, Palestinian Advocacy Is a Blind Spot

This silencing campaign presents itself as inclusive and therapeutic. In reality, it poses a significant threat to intellectual and academic freedom, yet one that seems perennially overlooked in the campus speech wars.

Andy Lamey

18 Sep 2019 · 19 min read

Confessions of a Social Constructionist

If I had known, 20 years ago, that my side in the ideological wars over gender and sex was going to win so decisively, I would have been ecstatic

Christopher Dummitt

17 Sep 2019 · 15 min read

How David Graeber Cancelled a Colleague

At the height of the #MeToo scandal in 2018, when dozens of actresses were coming forward with sordid testimonies about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation, a much more obscure scandal was unfolding around an academic journal involving the anthropologist David Graeber. The journal—HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory—was imploding