Category: Education
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By Selwyn Duke It was decades ago now that commentator Alan Keyes, responding to talk of “crises” (e.g., the economic crisis), added perspective. The real crisis we need worry about, he warned, is our “moral crisis.” Virtue in the people is the root of the tree. Take care of that and all else falls into place. The…
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By Selwyn Duke Pajama bottoms; crop tops; leggings as pants; du-rags; gangsta-style, sagging trousers; hoodies; and underwear showing. Modern times have become synonymous with declining standards, and all the preceding are seen in today’s schools. Not, however, at Tuskegee University (TU) in Alabama — and not under President Mark Brown’s watch. Historically black TU has…
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By Selwyn Duke “PhD” stands for “piled high and deep,” an old joke goes. This could come to mind with the recent and tragic Jason Arday scandal. Because the problem of Arday — a fabulist who had a fraudulent doctorate — isn’t limited to Arday. In fact, says an expert on the matter, the entire…
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By Selwyn Duke For years now I’ve been warning, to imprecisely echo Twain, that reports of wokeness’s death are greatly exaggerated. The force is in fact alive and well and still metastasizing. A story out of Portland, Oregon, illustrates this perfectly, too. It involves a mother who, after complaining about “trans” propaganda targeting her son,…
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By Selwyn Duke Did diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) kill Jason Arday? Strictly speaking, Arday, 41, the academic who resigned August 5 from Cambridge University over plagiarism charges, died by apparent suicide. He was found deceased Friday at his property in Battersea, south London. But it’s hard escaping the conclusion that had he not been…
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By Selwyn Duke Jason Arday was fêted and celebrated when he joined Cambridge University’s faculty in 2023. At 37, he was the prestigious institution’s youngest black professor, and no one wanted to look at him critically. The skids were so well greased that Cambridge turned a blind eye even when evidence piled up that Arday…
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By Selwyn Duke Many years ago, late economist Walter E. Williams recounted a story about being offered a prestigious Ivy League professorship. A young man at the time, he refused the position. Since he wasn’t qualified on paper, he explained, it would be obvious he was hired simply because of his race. (Williams was black).…
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By Selwyn Duke A man may look back 50 years, at an old birthday picture, and lament lost innocence and youthful vigor. So can people look back a half century on their land and wistfully observe what was and is no more. In America’s case, on our 250th birthday, some may note that while we…
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By Selwyn Duke “Education is useless without the Bible,” stated Noah Webster (1758-1843), known as the “Father of American Scholarship and Education.” “The Bible was America’s basic textbook in all fields,” he continued. “God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.” Texas is now taking this to heart.…
