No Campus for White Men.
. . “Political correctness” has plagued college campuses for longer than today’s students have been alive. The first administrative measures to prohibit “racially offensive” speech date from the late 1980s; […]
Category Archives: Higher Education
Blackboard Jungle.
. . He was sent to serve his apprenticeship at Eugene Debs High School for Business Careers (yes, a school for budding capitalists named after America’s most famous socialist). A […]
Reality Shock in the American Classroom: A Guide for the Perplexed.
. . Facing Reality is a simple book in the best sense of the word. It begins with a historical sketch of race and American education which, although brief, will […]
The Long Crusade.
. . In 2009, historian Raymond Wolters published Race and Education, 1954–2007, a book remarkable for eschewing moral sermonizing about desegregation in favor of recording its actual effects, both positive […]
You Can’t Say That Here!
. . Many cases of censorship are ideological. The Tufts University campus newspaper published an ad paid for by a student who thought the school’s “Islamic Awareness Week” painted too […]
Clamping Down on Free Speech on Campus.
. . Under US law, almost all speech in public settings is protected by the First Amendment. There are exceptions—fighting words, incitement, harassment, threats and intimidation, obscenity and defamation—but case […]
Higher Education: The Impossibility Of Reform.
. . If we really want to start at the beginning, I suggest we consider the word school. As some of you no doubt are aware, it derives from the Greek word […]
Picking Up the Torch.
. . Nock’s educational thought rests upon a fundamental distinction between education and training. Training means the learning of information relevant to the accomplishment of specific goals. Education in the […]
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