Category: Education

MUGA? To Make Universities Great Again, Stop the “Nonbinary Magical Realism”

January 25, 2025

By Selwyn Duke Question: How do the following college courses grab you? “The Phallus” “Queer Musicology” “Border Crossings, Borderlands: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Immigration” “Whiteness: The Other Side of Racism” “Native American Feminisms” “Sex Change City: Theorizing History in Genderqueer San Francisco” “Lesbian Pulp Fiction” No, the preceding are not from the film PCU (Politically Correct U),…
Liberal Magazine: “Colleges Are Lying to Their Students”

January 15, 2025

By Selwyn Duke If ever there were a sign that academia’s shtick is getting a bit stale, it’s when even a liberal magazine starts scoffing at its norms. This is what has happened, too, with the left-wing Atlantic warning that “colleges are lying to their students.” No, the outlet isn’t complaining about the various leftist isms pervading…
Colleges Are Cults “Teaching Victimhood” — and Twisting Minds

January 9, 2025

By Selwyn Duke “I was anxious. I felt guilty constantly. I couldn’t stop thinking about the whole white privilege thing.” This is what Lucy Kross got for her money as a Stanford University student (yearly tuition, room, and board: $76,312). She would eventually realize she’d been deceived and, it could be said, intellectually abused —…
Stereotypes or Reality? Study: 6-year-olds Believe Boys Are Better at Computing and Engineering

January 8, 2025

By Selwyn Duke Back in 2005, while explaining why so few women occupied top science positions, economist Lawrence Summers suggested it could partially have to do with “issues of intrinsic aptitude.” It was one reason why he was forced from his Harvard presidency position the next year. And if this standard still holds today, a…
Dumb and Dumber: NJ Teachers No Longer Need to Pass Basic Reading, Writing, and Math

January 1, 2025

By Selwyn Duke It holds the distinction of being our most densely populated state. Now people may wonder, though, is New Jersey also our most dense state? The question is relevant with news that the Garden State has tacitly confessed that it’s no fertile garden of intellectualism. The issue? NJ is having trouble finding enough…
Attacking Trump Voters, View Host Mistakes “Schooling” for Education

November 30, 2024

By Selwyn Duke “Never let your schooling interfere with your education,” goes the apocryphal saying. (No, it’s not from Mark Twain, though the schooled are more likely than the educated to think so.) It is a truth, too, an important one to grasp — especially for pseudo-elites who demean the unschooled as “uneducated.” Enter ABC network’s Sunny…
Trump Plans to Make Education Great Again — by Killing School Wokeness

November 14, 2024

By Selwyn Duke "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next,” the apocryphal saying goes. Given this, it’s notable that the “Left” has long controlled American education. (E.g., Democrats outnumber Republicans among college professors by almost nine to one.) But this left-wing schoolroom domination and…
NY Times: U of Michigan Blew a Quarter BILLION on DEI — and HURT Students and Staff

October 19, 2024

By Selwyn Duke When even The New York Times complains about your leftism, you know that you not only jumped the shark with wokism, but that the shark you jumped is a megalodon. This is the case, too, with a new report on how the University of Michigan squandered megabucks on DEI indoctrination. The result of these…
Vermont School Bans Saying Pledge of Allegiance, Parents Say

October 16, 2024

By Selwyn Duke There was a time, not long ago, when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance was standard in schools — and uncontroversial. Then it became an issue — and optional. Now it’s not even an option at one Vermont school, say local parents.
Cell Phones Have Been Called “Digital Heroin.” So, Should We Ban Them in School?

October 11, 2024

By Selwyn Duke “There was a time, not that many years ago, really, when we would actually get into an argument because we didn’t want to answer the phone,” quite funny and mostly clean comedian James Gregory once said during an act. “It’d be like, ‘You get it; I got it last time!’” Boy, the world sure…

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