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‘Equity’ Grading Is Latest Educational Fad Destined To Fail
Why work extra hard when you won’t be able to get an A? Why try to improve when you won’t get worse than a C?
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How Student Encampments Can Strengthen U.S.
Instead of defending the right to protest, many centrists are delegitimizing students, despite the value of what they’re doing
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Protesters Should Learn What Genocide Is
Universities are obliged to allow free speech. They are also obliged to make sure that students can attend classes free of harassment.
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Debating Legacy Preferences in College Admissions
Legacy preferences in college admissions have come under increasing criticism in recent years, especially in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision curbing the use of racial preferences in SFFA v. Harvard, last year. Sociologist Roderick Graham and I recently debated this issue at the Divided We Fall website, which hosts debates on various public […]
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Ben Sasse on Speech and Protest at the University of Florida
Ben Sasse, President of the University of Florida, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal explaining his approach to speech and protest at UF. The op-ed articulates three principles that other universities may wish to follow. First, universities must distinguish between speech and action. Speech is central to education. We’re in the business of discovering […]
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WSJ: How Campus Anti-Israel Protestors Were Encouraged and Trained By Outside Activists
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article explaining how the leaders of campus protests learned some of their strategies and tactics from national organizations and outside activists. It begins: The recent wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses came on suddenly and shocked people across the nation. But the political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations […]
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