Remembering Title IX Abuses
"Recently, Title IX has been in the news because of the Biden administration’s promised (and, as of yesterday, delivered) rejection of much-needed Trump-era reforms. As we are approaching the 50th anniversary of the statute, introduced as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, it is worth revisiting the history of Title IX and reviewing its often tragic legacy. Title IX was borne of a desire for equal rights in education. ... However, as with plenty of legislative history, the dubious story that followed is both frustrating and tragic." - The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 6/24/22
Stop the Radical Civics Bill
"This racist indoctrination is being done at our oldest military academy to young people who have signed up to defend America. Given the Big Government Socialist values of the teachers’ unions, the schools of education, the educational bureaucracy, and the activists in the Biden administration, how could any Republican want to give them $6.1 billion to further indoctrinate young Americans? Call your House and Senate members and demand that they oppose and stop this unbelievably destructive civics bill – before it is too late." - The Tennessee Star, 6/24/22
Delaware moves forward with ‘ban the box’ legislation for college admissions
"The Delaware Senate pushed through a bill this month that would forbid the state’s public and private colleges from inquiring about applicants’ criminal histories. This is what’s known as 'ban the box' legislation. Often, such measures limit employers from asking about a criminal record on job applications, but they have gained ground with colleges in the last several years. Delaware’s proposal would permit colleges to ask about students’ criminal backgrounds once they were admitted so they can offer counseling or restrict participation in campus life. It also makes an exception for such offenses as stalking and sexual assault." - Higher Ed Dive, 6/24/22
What the Biden administration gets right on student debt
"The common thread across these efforts is the Department of Education’s use of existing authority to provide legally sound debt forgiveness. Unlike universal or income-tested cancellation, which would pose new and significant implementation barriers, these are forms of relief that the Department of Education knows how to realize and can work to improve for borrowers. It’s reckless to talk about broad cancellation without acknowledging what it would mean for President Biden’s executive action, if he does so, to be challenged in court. But that hasn’t stopped heavy pressure from mounting from some policymakers and advocates for the administration to do just that — blanket debt forgiveness." - The Hill, 6/24/22
President’s Departure Marks ‘Start of a New Day’
"On Monday, after a special meeting of the Board of Trustees, Piedmont University president James Mellichamp announced that he would retire once a successor is named. A few days later, his husband, Daniel Smith, resigned from his position as senior projects manager at the university. It was the culmination of a tough semester for Piedmont. Two rounds of unexpected budget cuts, faculty layoffs, a vote of no confidence, professors’ contracts hanging in limbo and high-profile resignations from Provost Daniel Silber and endowed professor Carson Webb left the private college in Demorest, Ga., reeling with uncertainty and frustration." - Inside Higher Ed, 6/24/22
Sweeping Title IX changes would shield trans students, abuse survivors
"On the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the Biden administration proposed sweeping changes to the landmark law that would bar schools, colleges and universities from discriminating against transgender students, as the battle over transgender rights moves to the front lines of the culture war. The proposal would also amend the rules that govern how educational institutions investigate and resolve claims of sexual assault and sexual harassment." - Washington Post, 6/23/22
San Francisco School Board Votes to Return Elite High School to Merit-Based Admissions
"The San Francisco school board voted 4-3 Wednesday night to return Lowell High School to a merit-based admissions system, two years after it first switched to a lottery-based system. Beginning with freshman entering in fall 2023, test scores and grades will be used to admit students to Lowell, barring any other changes by the board, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The board first voted in favor of a switch to the lottery system in October 2020 because they said remote learning created a lack of academic data on which to base admissions decisions." - National Review, 6/23/22
Maryland university system won’t require SAT, ACT for admissions
"The University System of Maryland’s board of regents voted recently to pave the way for its 12 universities to remove the requirement for prospective students to provide their SAT or ACT scores for admission. Although the schools still have the autonomy to set their own admissions standards, Friday’s vote removes the language requiring them to consider test scores within their admissions practices." - Washington Post, 6/23/22
Ed Department strikes $6B settlement with students who attended for-profits
"The U.S. Department of Education agreed Wednesday to automatically forgive the federal student loans of roughly 200,000 borrowers to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that the agency delayed granting relief to students who were defrauded by their colleges. Under the terms of the Sweet v. Cardona settlement, the Ed Department will automatically forgive about $6 billion in student loans under the borrower defense to repayment regulation, which allows students to have their loans forgiven if their colleges misled them. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California will review the proposed settlement in July, according to the Project on Predatory Student Lending, one of the organizations providing legal representation for the students." - Higher Ed Dive, 6/23/22
After the Pandemic’s Dark Days, the Outlook for International Enrollments May Be Brightening
"American colleges are anticipating a pickup in international enrollments this fall, with two-thirds reporting an increase in overseas applicants, according to a new survey from the Institute of International Education. Sixty-five percent of colleges saw growth in applications from abroad for the 2022-23 academic year, while just 12 percent reported declines, the institute’s Spring 2022 Snapshot on International Educational Exchange found. In a snapshot survey conducted a year ago, 43 percent of institutions said international applications were up — and nearly as many, 38 percent, saw decreases." - Chronicle of Higher Education, 6/23/22
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This sort of indoctrination is occurring everywhere, including both colleges and K-12 schools. It’s spreading like wildfire.
For examples of K-12 schools that now subject their staff to such mandatory “diversity” indoctrination, based on the concepts of “white privilege” and “institutional racism,” look at what happened in the Seattle School District, and schools in Cherry Creek, CO; Chapel Hill, NC; and elsewhere.
The Seattle Schools taught that “individualism” is a form of “cultural racism”; that planning ahead is a white characteristic that it is racist to expect minorities to exhibit; and that only whites, who benefit from “white privilege” and “institutional racism,” can be racist.
These bizarre teachings were ridiculed in opinions by Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas in a landmark Supreme Court case issued this June, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007). Justice Thomas’s concurring opinion argued that these and other aspects of the Seattle Schools’ obsession with “white privilege” made it inappropriate to blindly defer to school districts when they use race in student assignment.
Yet the Seattle Schools’ diversity consultant, Glenn Singleton, far from rethinking his obsessons with “white privilege” and “institutionalized racism,” and his weird doctrine that “individualism” is a white characteristic, continues to spread his weird racial philosophy to additional school districts.
Recently, he was hired as a diversity consultant by the Arlington Public Schools in Arlingon County, Virginia (in the Supreme Court’s own backyard), and by the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board in Nova Scotia, Canada, showing that this indoctrination is being exported to Canada.
So his theories, while discredited in the courts, continue to spread through academia.
Civil-rights historian David Beito compares Singleton’s mandatory “diversity” training to Maoist indoctrination, saying that white teachers who forced to participate in it humiliated and depicted as racists.
His claim that members of different races have different mental characteristics has also drawn fire. Singleton claims that “white talk” is “impersonal, intellectual” and “task-oriented” while “color commentary” is “personal” and “emotional.” If a white teacher said that, he’d be fired for racism.
Recently, Singleton embarrassed California schools superintendent Jack O’Connell (D). The San Francisco NAACP head demanded an apology after O’Connell said that black people were loud and that white teachers needed to accommodate that loudness in the classroom. O’Connell, who is white, defended himself by noting that he was merely repeating what Singleton, who is black, had told him. In reality, many minority students want “simple, elusive quiet” in the classroom in order to study, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
My blog posts documenting what I have said above are all available at the OpenMarket blog at http://www.openmarket.org. The blog posts are dated Dec. 3, Nov. 27, Nov. 20, and Nov. 16, 2007.
I am a lawyer, and used to practice educational law, including civil-rights claims, and once worked for a short stint at the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.