I’ve written in praise of Allan Bloom’s book The Closing of the American Mind several times before, but here I go again. It was published in 1987, which is now very close to 30 years ago. And yet its relevance … Continue reading →
It’s the education, stupid. A while back I wrote a post that mentions a book by E. D. Hirsch entitled Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know: Written in 1987 (the same year as Allan Bloom’s book The Closing … Continue reading →
Oh, it’s so hard to keep the dictates of diversity straight! A person can be trying to do the right thing, and yet fail. For example, yoga: Student leaders have pulled the mat out from 60 University of Ottawa students, … Continue reading →
I noticed that there’s a proposal to ban the n-word in Boston public schools: “The critical thing is making sure the students understand that we want to do this with them and that this is not about punishing them,” said … Continue reading →
Ace notes that even some liberal professors on campus are becoming alarmed (although for the wrong reasons) about the closed, doctrinaire, power-driven, anti-free-speech tactics of the social justice [sic] warriors on campus. He quotes a liberal professor named Edward Schlosser … Continue reading →
Now we have an effort to teach “gender fluidity” in middle and high school: Fairfax County Public Schools released a report recommending changes to their family life curriculum for grades 7 through 12. The changes, which critics call radical gender … Continue reading →
Here’s a good one to send round to all your liberal friends who are still accepting emails from you It’s two years old, but it’s new to me: I teach a class at Stanford Business School titled “Financial Crises in … Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote a post discussing certain liberals who say Pam Geller spouts hatred but who defend her right to do so. Some of them don’t even feel the need to give quotes or details in order to illustrate this … Continue reading →
I wrote about the Atlanta school cheating scandal several times (see the first three entries after this one on this list). It’s a shocking tale of widescale corruption within the public education system of the city, plus an attempted coverup: … Continue reading →
Some drunken frat boys (it’s not clear how many) from the SAE chapter at the University of Oklahoma sang a very racist song while on a chartered bus and were videotaped doing it. So now the national fraternity has banned … Continue reading →
More than this apparently: The city Department of Education has failed to fire a teacher rated “unsatisfactory” for six consecutive years. Ann Legra, 44, a first-grade teacher at PS 173 in Washington Heights, racked up “six years of failing her … Continue reading →
And middle-class savings smells like blood in the water to him, according to Glenn Reynolds: When a government is desperate for cash, it goes after the middle class, because that’s where the money is. Yes, the rich are rich, but … Continue reading →