White Men Don’t Go to Ed School
…focus on in the College, which are expressed in the acronym TEACH: Transformative Leadership Equity and Social Justice Action Collaboration Human Differences and Diversity Darren asked wittily: “Which four are…
Search Results for: Social justice
How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others
…racial preferences based on generalized “societal discrimination,” social justice, or the contemporary needs of American society as insufficiently weighty to overrule the color-blind imperative of the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection…
Ethnic Studies: ”White Studies” in Black and Brown?
…ethnic studies is, indeed, anchored in the histories, traditions, literatures, and philosophies of American people of color and their diaspora. The field also supports social justice and equality for all….
What Happened at Berkeley in November
…of 1964 launched decades of illegal student protest: how to balance students’ passions for social justice (and sometimes other motives) with the rule of law. November 20 capped three days…
What Now After CLS?
…Justice Alito termed a campus agenda of political correctness. The “all-comers” policy has satisfied the Supreme Court. But from an educational standpoint, does it make any sense? What purpose is…
A War on the Quality of Higher Education
…peoples and problems and developing individuals who will advance equity and justice both at home and abroad.” [emphasis added] The desired general education curriculum, moreover, will allow students “to wrestle…
Let’s Pretend This Is Research
…“social justice,” 96 on “diversity,” 52 on “critical race theory,” and 28 on “feminist theory.” This list pretty much exhausts the political obsessions of the cultural left. But it hasn’t…
Amen to Bard’s Reading Program, but…
…point for discussion and activities in your First Year Seminar; and -prepare you for discussions related to our socio-economic status issues in the United States and how social justice advocacy…
Reshape Universities Because of “Stereotype Threat”?
…in admissions. “Social justice” requires that race and class be weighed. Having done this, we must “question our deeper assumptions about what success is” and “rethink some of our most…
Mandatory Opinions on Public Campuses
…Study of Social Justice on campus. In addition, the plan included a diversity strategy stating that the campus will identify spaces to be devoted to underrepresented student groups. While the…
The Politically Correct University and How to Fix It
…university professors to want higher salaries? If “social justice” theorists like Jonathan Kozol are really in it for the children, why don’t they donate their $20,000 speaking fees to scholarships?…
Teach Social Justice–Or Else
…disposition thinking say is that while it is fitting and proper to introduce teacher-aspirants to ideas about social justice, social and economic inequities, racial and other demographic variables, and related…
Challenging the Education Monopoly
…for enthusiastically measuring the “disposition” of all prospective public school teachers to promote “social justice”—seem far more interested in structuring ideologically top-heavy curricula than in providing the practical guidance (tips…
“Feelings” Education—It Starts in Ed School
…To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, a bestseller among education textbooks, Ayers offers a pedagogy that revolves around touchy-feely “exploration,” “social justice,” and “love.” Moravian College Professor Joseph Shosh…
On Pigeons, Pells and Student Incentives
…from the official worksheet of the Department of Education, is as follows: – Your Social Security Number and your parents’ Social Security Numbers if you are providing parent information; –…
Shall We Rank Law Schools for Diversity?
…in which Amar and Johnson, quoting from Justice O’Connor’s opinion for the Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger, state these benefits: Among other things, a diverse student body facilitates “cross-racial…
Tell Me Again—Why Is He at Princeton?
…two weeks before he started his White House job last March, for forced redistribution of capitalist profits to minorities and Native Americans: “Give them the wealth!…No justice on stolen land!”…
Why Do Anthropologists Have Their Own Foreign Policy?
…humane causes of global peace and social justice.” David Vine, a member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education in November, offered a lengthy…
How Is Yiddish Doing?
…I could have made the case for Yiddish equally well in most areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences. – Linguistics provided the first academic home for Yiddish in America,…
Identity Politics Beyond Reason
…with other offerings at the school such as: – Introduction to Community Service Professions – Eco-Literacy and Social Justice Seminar – Politics and Power (first sentence: “Students largely run this…
10 Reasons Not To Wait 25 Years to Revisit Grutter
10. Justice O’Connor now suggests that the social-science evidence on which it was based is shaky. 9. The social-science evidence on which it was based is getting shakier, as more…
America the Awful—Howard Zinn’s History
…up against now.” Zinn himself added a few weeks ago that his hope was that his work will spread new rebellion, and “lead into a larger movement for economic justice.”…
What Is The AAUP Up To?
…clarion call for the establishment of “social justice: on campus. Among other things, his notion of social justice consists of the unionization of faculty members and graduate students, and the…
Remarkable Fact Of The Day
At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, students can minor in social and economic justice without taking a single economics course.—Reported by E. Frank Stephenson on the Division of…
Decoding Teacher Training
…students’ rights in higher education—the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) abandoned its de facto “social justice” criterion. Yet while the development made it harder for Education schools…
The University Of Chicago – What’s Been Lost
…it is hard to find much of the Great Conversation in “Mind.” “Social Science Inquiry,” still more generally, examines social science epistemologies and research methods. The social sciences core thus…
Should J-Students Work For The Defense?
…that paints convicted criminals as victims of social injustice. The Brandeis Innocence Project, for example states on its website that America faces an “ethical crisis” of “200,000 innocent people” (10…
Arne Duncan’s Balancing Act
…of Education Arne Duncan visited Columbia Teachers College—seemingly the only institution still utilizing the since-abandoned NCATE policy of assessing each prospective teacher’s disposition to promote social justice. Duncan was blunt:…
Too Many Talented Students?
…fail their oft-announced mission of “social justice” and equality. Perhaps we need every top university to institute an exchange program. What about something like this: every student at H-Y-P-etc. has…
Celebrating FIRE
…criticizing the Brooklyn Education Department’s “social justice” criteria. In response, I received a letter (addressed to “Robert Johnson, Ph.D.”) from 30 professors in the department, demanding—in the name of “academic…