What Progressive Educators Get Wrong About Creativity
Originality requires both knowledge and technical mastery.
Daniel Buck
· 11 min read
Education
A collection of 398 posts
The Educational Ship Comes to a Shuddering Halt
School closings put strain on families and students alike.
Jenny Griebenow
· 11 min read
Critical Thinking, Reverential Thinking, and Lashing Out
Before we challenge conventions, we must understand and master them.
Alexander Zubatov
· 8 min read
And Yet it May (Or May Not) Move
If we allow ideological campaigns to discourage controversial research, we will be making a terrible mistake.
Bryan J. Pesta
· 21 min read
Ignoring the Evidence
The University of California has decided to drop college admissions tests—that is a bad idea.
Robert J. Morris
· 6 min read
At Canadian Universities, Race and Gender Quotas Have Become a Way of Life
In their recruitment efforts, some schools now flat-out exclude white males who don’t self-identify as disabled or LGBT.
Margaret Wente
· 11 min read
Co-Opting Toronto’s Public Education System in the Name of Social Justice Activism
Why Canada’s largest school board is seeking to administer an ideologically skewed census to its students.
Ian Cooper
· 14 min read
Bloated College Administration Is Making Education Unaffordable
Our campuses are stuffed with non-academic office workers. If elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers, I‘ll propose firing most of them.
Harvey Silverglate
· 4 min read
Anti-Male Bias at the NHMRC
Imposing gender quotas for research funding is counterproductive and sets a dangerous new precedent.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 5 min read
Sex and the Academy
The inclusion of women in higher education is a great achievement for Western liberal societies. How is this changing academic culture?
Cory Clark, Bo Winegard
· 14 min read
Math for Future Scientists: Require Statistics, Not Calculus
The case for ending calculus requirements for science majors.
Robert C. Thornett
· 8 min read
Universities Have a Sustainability Problem
The era of disconnected, infinite knowledge production should draw to a close.
Robert Frodeman
· 7 min read
Walkout at Milton Academy
When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education.
Randall Kennedy and Harvey Silverglate
· 4 min read
The Real Challenges Facing Public Education
Critical Race Theory is a distraction and 'equity' is just a buzzword. A new book by an award-winning teacher argues that the real challenges facing public education go much deeper than political ideology.
Brock Tillman
· 10 min read
The ACT Discriminates
...but not in the way you might expect.
Frederick R. Prete
· 13 min read