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Stanley Fish and the false dichotomy
In his New York Times column, Stanley Fish argues that while higher-ed faculty and K-12 teachers have a right to political activity outside the classroom, that does not extend to wearing a button to class. In response to my argument last week (and thanks not only for the shout-out but for spelling my name correctly!), […]
Both Fish and Bérubé are wrong
Some years ago, I ran across someone who was so firmly convinced that schools were heterosexist, he thought that K-12 teachers should be forbidden from mentioning anything about their private lives lest they reinforce heteronormative assumptions. I asked, “Okay, so that means you can’t have a picture of your spouse or children on your desk?” […]
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education jumps the shark
Twice this month I’ve agreed with National Association of Scholars head Peter Wood, but when NAS organizes what looks like a Horowitzian ideological witchhunt, they’ve lost my sympathy. I’m also at a loss to understand why the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s blog applauded NAS. There’s a pretty large gulf between FIRE’s support of […]
The higher-ed split among conservatives
One could probably have predicted today’s Inside Higher Ed article describing how several conservative academics criticized the current push for quantitative assessment of higher ed. I didn’t, but if you did, give yourself a pat on the back. The article describes a panel on Friday sponsored by the American Academy of Distance Learning (more about […]
No doubts
I don’t think there is any reasonable doubt among the relevant historians that the killing of Armenians in 1915 was genocide. And now, it looks remarkably like a defunding threat from the government of Turkey pushed Donald Quataert out of the position of board chair at the Institute of Turkish Studies.