Saving Academia From Itself Week in Education
Your weekly report on education news.
Changing education in America is like trying to turn around an ocean liner, but Trump is off to a good start.
- Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Settlement Over Claims it Discriminated Against Jewish Students
- Middlebury College Prof Claims Trump is Forcing Her to Teach ‘Lies’ About Gender
- Trump Admin to Distribute Millions in ‘Patriotic Education’ Grants for Students
The Equal Protection Project is doing its part.
There are other signs of healing.
- Rush University Medical Center Scales Back ‘Gender Affirming Care’ for Minors
- USC Professor’s Youth-Focused Gender Transitioning Clinic Shutting Down
- Kansas Public University Leaders Order Employees to Remove Pronouns From Email Signatures
Of course, we still have to deal with this.
- George Mason U Profs Say School Condemned ‘Islamophobia’ – But Not Antisemitism
- Pro-Israel Event at U Illinois Urbana-Champaign Reported to Bias Team 50 Times
- Anti-Israel Campus Protests Are Causing Jewish Students to Self-Censor
Schools are going to have to learn to make due with less.
- Northwestern U Cuts Staff and Halts Hiring Amid Federal Funding Freeze
- Temple U Laying Off 50 Employees as it Struggles With Massive Budget Deficit
Some schools are resorting to awful ideas.
- Penn State Board of Trustees Approves Tuition Hike
- U Minnesota Adds $200 Student Fee at Twin Cities Campus to Help Pay Student Athletes
Excellent news!
He deserves worse.
Getting back to the basics is working.
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“Changing education in America is like trying to turn around an ocean liner, but Trump is off to a good start.”
But the ocean liner in question here is the Titanic; it’s old, rotting, and has never had an on time arrival. In other words, to quote Dr. McCoy, “He’s dead, Jim.”
Education works great if you’re part of the gravy train, from teachers to administrators, from union bosses to those building citadels to a dying concept ($300 million at a time). If you’re a student, tough luck, kid.
No, public education has ultimately been a colossal failure. By any measure, they churn out citizens that cannot read, write or add 2+2 by the score. Scholars, no so much. Schools have successfully usurped the role of parents (not that public schools were anything more than day care serving the Industrial Revolution anyway) with free breakfast for all and gender affirming care without parental consent and plenty more in between.
Trump has made a good start by putting a dagger through the heart of the DOE. But until public sector unions (all of them, not just teachers) get the same treatment, and the government monopoly on education ends, this problem will continue to get worse, not better.
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I prefer academe as it precludes half the moronic commentators from mispronouncing academia.