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Heterodox Academy meeting is any indication, heterodox thinking poses substantially more problems than even the hardworking leaders of Heterodox Academy realized.
Just 4 percent of specialized high school students got in under this program in 2017, but de Blasio will expand this program to fill 20 percent of the seats.
Does the applicant have experience teaching students from a variety of backgrounds? Have they worked respectfully and effectively with those students?
Notes from the recent Heterodox Academy conference.
Colleges offering online courses could make some basic technical adjustments to preclude most of this cheating if they cared to do so.
This is your chance to write in depth about what interests you,” said my lecturers as I prepared to embark upon my History dissertation.
Several Stanford University campus groups began protesting a free speech initiative that seemed designed to stir up controversy and privilege right-wing voices.
The Gonski panel is the chorus and we are the audience. The play is the ongoing tragedy of Australian education.
A colleague of mine in the economics department once said, “when the price of bullshit is zero, demand is inelastic.
But the virtue of The Case Against Education is that Caplan synthesizes many lines of research that approach the question with different methods.
It’s true that being very smart and scoring very well on the SAT is the only way most people can have a chance of getting into an Ivy League school
The solution seemed to be clear: educate the public and they will accept the science.
Faculty in continental Europe already overwhelming lean left in the social sciences and humanities
The liberal-to-leftist makeup of the discipline significantly influences the questions historians ask, the answers that we privilege, and the ways we teach and engage with the public.
The idea of bringing traditional ways of knowing together with empirical data and science is important.