Education

‘Can’t You All See Me?’: The Blindness of Academic ‘Antiracism’3
- Education, Featured
- August 8, 2023
Earlier this year, in an interview on a CNN podcast, one of the figureheads of contemporary so-called antiracism, Ibram X. Kendi, unwittingly described the effect of his own work and that of others in his movement: “And so, I mean, the attack on history, the attack on education opens the door to mass ignorance. And
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The Solution to Pandemic Learning Loss Is Less Schooling, Not More 0
- Education
- August 3, 2023
The latest data dump from the Nation’s Report Card reveals declining academic performance among US students. As with previous releases showing the same trend, especially over the past three years, the solution proposed by many education reformers and advocates is to double-down on the amount of schooling and school-like activities students get. “The greatest challenge
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Who Funds American Universities? Doubts About the Big Donors 2
- Education
- August 2, 2023
There’s nothing wrong with billionaires, corporations, and philanthropic organizations giving money to our public and private universities, right? They’re just putting their fortunes to work for the benefit of the American people. They’re advancing our cultural and scientific development out of the goodness of their hearts. Think again. Universities are the heart of our intellectual
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Recent Left-Wing Attempts to Subvert Maths Curricula Hold Some Awkward Historical Parallels 0
- Education
- July 20, 2023
If you were an author of school textbooks and wanted to teach a small child that 2+2=4, how would you choose to do so? Perhaps you might draw a picture of two easily-understandable items like apples, next to another two apples, followed by a final illustration of four apples, these simple and innocent images linked
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The Media’s Response to the Affirmative Action Ruling 1
- Politics, Education
- July 18, 2023
The Supreme Court has ruled that race-based affirmative action is unconstitutional. As could be expected, the caterwauling from the mainstream media was immediate and voluminous. At MSNBC, I found a stellar example of what promises to be a mother lode of dishonest and uninformed commentary on the topic. On her show The Reid Out, Joy
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Gallup Poll Reveals Americans’ Plummeting Confidence in Public Schools 2
- Education
- July 18, 2023
Americans have soured on public schools. That’s the takeaway from Gallup polling results released earlier this month showing that Americans’ confidence in public schools is at a low point, with only 26 percent of respondents indicating a “Great deal/Fair amount” of confidence in that institution. Indeed, public schools join three other institutions that are also at or tied with
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