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Education
America Is Divided by Education
The Atlantic - Adam Harris
The gulf between the party identification of white voters with college degrees and those without is growing rapidly. Trump is widening it. One of the most striking patterns in yesterday’s election was
Intellectual Property
Foxconn’s $100M deal with the University of Wisconsin has students worried
The Verge - Josh Dzieza
The company will jointly fund new faculty and share intellectual property, but exactly how is unclear At the University of Wisconsin-Madison in late August, chancellor Rebecca Blank and Foxconn chairman
Education
As Humanities Majors Decline, Colleges Try to Hype Up Their Programs
The Atlantic - Jeffrey Selingo
The Great Recession scared a lot of students away from the humanities. Now administrators are trying to bring them back. Even as college students on the whole began to shun humanities majors over the decade
Law
Truth vs. Social Justice
The Atlantic - Conor Friedersdorf
Academic recognition shouldn’t hinge on a scholar’s moral character. What is the telos––the purpose, end, or goal––of the university? In a thought-provoking 2016 lecture, the social psychologist Jonathan
The Idioms of Non-Argument
The Atlantic - Conor Friedersdorf
What happens when reviewers spend more time focusing on the motives of authors than the merits of their claims? In The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff argue that well-intentioned
Education
The Coddling of the American Mind ‘Is Speeding Up’
The Atlantic - Julie Beck
A conversation with Greg Lukianoff, the co-author of a 2015 Atlantic cover story and new book of the same name, about campus free speech in a tumultuous time Greg Lukianoff was preoccupied with political
How a Professor Was Punished for an Act of Citizenship
The Atlantic - Conor Friedersdorf
Decisions made at Plymouth State University threaten to undermine participation in America’s criminal-justice system. Michael Fischler is an award-winning professor emeritus of education at Plymouth State
Times Newer Roman is a sneaky font designed to make your essays look longer
The Verge - Chaim Gartenberg
For when you need to hit that five-page minimum, but you’ve run out of things to say As someone who is ostensibly a professional writer, I can say with some authority that sometimes, writing is hard. when
Texas Board of Education Votes to Remove Hillary Clinton From Social Studies Curriculum
slate.com - Daniel Politi
Hillary Clinton speaks on December 2, 2017 in Playa Vista, California. Vivien Killilea/Getty ImagesThe Texas State Board of Education doesn’t seem to …
The government’s top student loan watchdog is quitting in protest
Vox - Emily Stewart
Seth Frotman said in his resignation letter that the White House has “turned its back on young people and their financial futures” The federal government’s top official charged with protecting student
Making The Grade: Digital textbooks for iPad never took off, and here’s why
9to5Mac - Bradley Chambers
Making The Grade is a weekly series from Bradley Chambers covering Apple in education. Bradley has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009. Through his experience deploying managing
The Humanities Are in Crisis
The Atlantic - Benjamin Schmidt
Students are abandoning humanities majors, turning to degrees they think yield far better job prospects. But they’re wrong. People have been proclaiming the imminent extinction of the humanities for decades.
Alabama announces $600-million plan to upgrade athletics facilities, may finally become a sports school:
slate.com - Nick Greene
At last, Alabama will be able to recruit.
U.S. Politics
A Stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes
Vox - Sean Illing
"Not giving a shit takes the wind out of an asshole's sails." The world is full of assholes. Wherever you live, whatever you do, odds are you’re surrounded by assholes. The question is, what to do about
Why are academic books often unreadable? Because they’re written to be “broken,” not read:
slate.com - Douglas Hunter
Why are academic books often unreadable? Because they’re written to be “broken,” not read.
‘Access to Literacy’ Is Not a Constitutional Right, Judge in Detroit Rules
The New York Times - By JACEY FORTIN
Do students at poorly performing schools have a constitutional right to a better education? On Friday, a Federal District Court judge in Michigan decided that they did not when he dismissed a class-action
Behold This Disastrously Bad Op-Ed Calling for Amazon to Replace Libraries
Gizmodo - Tom McKay
For those who have remained blissfully off of Twitter, a site that remains uncomfortably popular with sociopaths and morons like me, the “ratio” is …
Target's Coupon Fix for Cash-Strapped Teachers
The Atlantic - Alia Wong
The retailer’s new back-to-school discount says a lot about the state of education funding in the United States. In a textbook feel-good business move, the retail giant Target is offering a coupon to this
The Rise of College ‘Grade Forgiveness’
The Atlantic - Jeffrey Selingo
Universities are letting students take classes over again—a consequence of the pressure schools feel to ensure their “customers” are satisfied. Over the course of the past three decades, the A has become
Michigan state Sen. Colbeck edits school standards to be conservative.
slate.com - Molly Olmstead
A Michigan state senator and gubernatorial candidate struck the word “democratic” from the phrase “core democratic values” in the state’s proposed …
Here’s How Higher Education Dies
The Atlantic - Adam Harris
A futurist says the industry may have nowhere to go but down. What does the slide look like? Maybe higher education has reached its peak. Not the Harvards and Yales of the world, but the institutions make
An Unusual Idea for Fixing School Segregation
The Atlantic - Rachel M. Cohen
What if the answer lies in changing how college admissions work? Many proposals for addressing school segregation seem pretty small, especially when compared to the scale and severity of the problem. the
A Santa Fe High School student says she expected to be shot at one day
Vox - Zack Beauchamp
“It’s been happening everywhere. I’ve always felt it would eventually happen here.” The Friday morning school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas happened three months and four days after the shooting
Letters: Why Is State Funding for Public Universities Declining?
The Atlantic
Readers debate questions of cause and effect when it comes to government spending on public higher education and student diversity. American Higher Education Hits a Dangerous Milestone Ronald Brownstein
Sleep
Black Yale Student Was Napping, and a White Student Called the Police
The New York Times - By CHRISTINA CARON
A black graduate student at Yale who fell asleep in her dorm’s common room said she had a disturbing awakening this week when a white student flipped on the lights, told her she had no right to sleep and
Then the Censors Came for Rap Music
The Atlantic - Conor Friedersdorf
A barista at a coffee shop on the Duke campus was fired because a high-powered administrator took offense to the song she was playing off Spotify. Last week, Larry Moneta, Duke’s vice president of student
American Higher Education Hits a Dangerous Milestone
The Atlantic - Ronald Brownstein
As younger generations become more racially diverse, many states are allocating fewer tax dollars to public colleges and universities. Drawing almost no attention, the nation crossed an ominous milestone
We now know precisely how the Koch brothers and Leonard Leo buy special favors:
slate.com - Mark Joseph Stern
New insight into how big-time conservative donors conduct themselves when they don’t think the public is watching.