Education

Will Harvard’s Head Hang On?0
- Culture, Education, Featured
- December 18, 2023
Last week, Intellectual Takeout reported on the jaw-dropping Capitol Hill testimony of MIT President Sally Kornbluth, UPenn President Liz Magill, and Harvard President Claudine Gay. In turn, each leader affirmed—bizarrely—that calls for genocide against Jews did not violate their schools’ harassment policies unless those calls were severe, directed at individuals, or crossed over into conduct.
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Atheism and Antisemitism at America’s Universities 0
- Culture, Education
- December 18, 2023
Ryan Burge is a data analyst who synthesizes information about religion and politics in the United States. He publishes his findings and observations regularly on Substack. Last week, he wrote an article titled “How Weird is The Religious Composition of Harvard’s Student Body?” In it, he examines the results of a poll Harvard conducted of
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At Harvard, Calls for Genocide Depend on Context 1
- Education, Culture, Featured
- December 12, 2023
Calling for a genocide against Jews is permissible at Harvard University, so long as such speech is not “targeted at an individual” and does not cross “into conduct,” according to Harvard President Claudine Gay. Gay delivered her jaw-dropping pronouncement under oath on Capitol Hill Wednesday before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. She did
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Young People Aren’t Reading Classic Books. 3 Reasons Why That’s a Problem.4
- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature
- December 11, 2023
One thing I wish I would have done more when I was in grade school was read. Granted, I do not recall anyone around me with their nose in a book or suggesting the activity might be enjoyable. The simple fact was that I didn’t know what I didn’t know. Even now, some twenty years
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Why Is There A Dyslexia Epidemic?4
- Education
- December 7, 2023
The earliest documented cases of dyslexia, or a language processing disorder that makes it difficult to read, date back more than a century. For decades, it was considered a relatively rare occurrence, but today it is estimated that up to 20 percent of the US population is dyslexic. What is going on? Advances in childhood diagnosis and
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If Your Kids Aren’t Happy at School, Find Them Another One 1
- Education, Family
- December 5, 2023
“I hated going to school when I was a kid,” said Elon Musk in a 2015 interview. “It was torture.” When deciding how his own children would be educated, Musk rejected traditional schooling and created his own project-based microschool, Ad Astra, in 2014, on his SpaceX campus. “The kids really love going to school,” said
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