Category: Education (Page 5 of 8)

WSJ: Wisconsin Sex Addict Gets Fired.

WSJ: UW Chancellor Fired for Porn

WSJ: UW Chancellor Fired for Porn

The university system’s board of regents voted unanimously to terminate University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow during a closed session Wednesday evening. UW-La Crosse Provost Betsy Morgan will serve as interim chancellor following Gow’s dismissal, university system leaders said.

What could Gow have done that was so bad?

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David Sedaris: Children now are like animals who have no natural predators left.

Free Press: David Sedaris Punching Down

Words, we are now regularly reminded, are violence. So too is silence. I read not long ago that capitalism is violence, as is misgendering someone. Ignoring someone is violence, but so too is paying them attention.

Sedaris is a cosmopolitan humorist, so he is describing coastal people and what is written by influencers on social media, but many young people don’t seem very resilient.

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WSJ: Ohio State is Corrupted with DEI.

WSJ: DEI at Ohio State

WSJ: DEI at Ohio State

In February 2021, then-president Kristina Johnson launched an initiative to hire 50 professors whose work focused on race and “social equity” and “100 underrepresented and BIPOC hires” (the acronym stands for black, indigenous and people of color). These reports show what higher education’s outsize investment in “diversity, equity and inclusion” looks like in practice. Ohio State sacrificed both academic freedom and scholarly excellence for the sake of a narrowly construed vision of diversity.

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NYT: Teachers are miserable.

NYT: Teachers can’t hold kids accountable.

NYT: Teachers can’t hold kids accountable.

This New York Times editorial about teaching covers real problems that are collapsing public education, but nothing here is new.  These problems were evident the entire time I’ve been teaching, but Covid allowed the wreckers and degenerates to go all in.  They are opposed by parent groups, but it’s a tough slog. 

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