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  • Mark Cuban: You Never See Trump ‘Around Strong, Intelligent Women’

    10/31/2024 11:22:27 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 121 replies
    Breitbart ^ | October 30, 2024 | Pam Key
    Billionaire investor Mark Cuban claimed Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that you never see former President Donald Trump around “strong, intelligent women.” Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked, “Well Mark let me ask you because you were a Nikki Haley supporter like I was in the primary but now you’re supporting Kamala Harris. It turns out Donald Trump is not even asking Nikki Haley for her help to try to reach her voters. What do you make of that, and do you think having people like Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and other Republicans with Kamala Harris is going to put her...
  • A New Liberal-Arts University Arises -- Savannah’s Ralston College

    10/31/2024 3:40:43 AM PDT · by karpov · 7 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | October 23, 2024 | Stephen Blackwood
    Ralston College counts among its first graduates a 24-year-old man who, in his third term of study, asked me what he could do to help ensure our fledgling institution would endure for 100 years. His query deepened a conviction that had guided me for the previous decade as I traveled the world in search of philanthropists and world-class academics to help found a university dedicated to preserving and advancing knowledge: It is what young people want but cannot easily find. Answering their call has been inspiring and, at times, challenging. While it is a challenge that my colleagues and I...
  • A Tale Of Two Schools

    10/28/2024 11:32:49 AM PDT · by 2CAVTrooper · 10 replies
    26OCT24 | Me
    So this is a quick observation of what I have witnessed over the past several weeks while traveling in Normandy and Holland. While walking through the American cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach I noticed a group of school children standing around a grave with one child talking. Out of curiosity, I asked their teacher who informed me that it's a class assignment where each student is assigned a name of a soldier, airman, or sailor buried there. The children are required as part of this assignment to learn everything about the person assigned to them, where they were born, where they...
  • Antisemitism in NYC schools fueled by foreign actors, activist educators: report. "Palestine" Arab "activism" / Qatar, backing by Soros, etc.)

    10/28/2024 3:56:53 AM PDT · by Freeleesy · 6 replies
    NY Post ^ | Oct 26, 2024 | Susan Edelman and Deirdre Bardolf
    Activists and foreign actors have infiltrated the city’s public schools with anti-Israel materials, fostering bias and hatred of Jews, according to a new report by a nonprofit think tank.Teacher groups like NYC Educators for Palestine have collaborated with extremist organizations, some allegedly tied to hostile foreign governments and terrorist groups, to bring “radical, anti-American ideologies” into schools, said the Network Contagion Research Institute, or NCRI, and the advocacy group New York City Public School Alliance, which co-wrote the report.
  • Do Police Have a Duty To Protect Individuals?

    10/25/2024 8:22:45 AM PDT · by EBH · 33 replies
    Ehline Law Firm ^ | Michael Ehline
    We Americans have no general civil right to sue the police for failure to provide protection. In a nutshell, you cannot sue a government agency or a school district unless it’s done within a certain period of time after suffering an injury or loss. Even then, you can only sue the police or the Department of Social Services for certain things. And providing you with your own personal protection services is not law enforcement’s function. In essence, since these are the king’s men, they are his sovereign representatives, shielded under the ancient doctrine of sovereign immunity. Time and time again,...
  • The Classic Learning Test Is Good for North Carolina

    10/25/2024 5:15:34 AM PDT · by karpov · 2 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | October 21, 2024 | Jeremy Tate
    During the Covid pandemic, the University of North Carolina (like many institutions of higher learning) went test-optional. However, the Board of Governors rightly reversed that policy this year, re-establishing a requirement that some students applying to UNC submit a score from a standardized college-entry exam and recognizing the SAT and ACT for that purpose. So far, so good (though UNC should really re-expand its testing requirement to all students). The experiment of going testing-optional has proven to many universities the benefits of using admissions exams as part of a holistic admissions process. But the SAT and ACT are no longer...
  • The ABA Retreats From Its Diversity Mandate—or Does It?

    10/24/2024 3:56:52 AM PDT · by karpov · 3 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | October 16, 2024 | Mark Pulliam
    Most industries and occupations have trade associations to promote their interests through lobbying, marketing, and public relations. Lawyers are no exception. One difference between, say, the American Urological Association and the American Bar Association, however, is that instead of merely providing opportunities for professional networking and vacation junkets dressed up as “conventions,” the left-leaning ABA is clothed with quasi-governmental regulatory authority over the entire field of legal education. The ABA effectively oversees the operations of nearly 200 law schools in the United States. Absurdly, this professional cartel regulates itself! The U.S. Department of Education limits eligibility for federal student loans...
  • Let’s Open the Black Box of Selective College Admissions

    10/23/2024 3:46:20 AM PDT · by karpov · 7 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | October 11, 2024 | Frederick M. Hess
    The aftermath of the 2023 Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA) has put a spotlight on the capriciousness of admissions practices at selective colleges. In SFFA, the Supreme Court ruled that race-based admissions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. After immense consternation about the impact of the ruling, dire warnings, and earnest discussion about how colleges should respond, the truth is that we have limited insight into what’s changed, how colleges are actually responding, or whether they’re even abiding by the law. Here’s what we do know: At...
  • Kamala Harris Got Into Law School Via a Program She Didn't Qualify For

    10/22/2024 6:40:23 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    Red State ^ | October 22, 2024 | Jim Thompson |
    Kamala Harris graduated from Howard University without honors. Harris then applied to law school. She was admitted to Hastings School of Law at the University of California. Hastings is considered a good law school but not “elite." It ranks 80th of America’s ABA schools. Admission isn't a "breeze" but it is pretty easy to be accepted for an honors student, with a solid LSAT. Of the total applicants to Hastings, about half are accepted and around a third of that number actually enroll. That means Hasting is a “backup” law school for a lot of the applicants. She wasn't an...
  • Massive Teachers Union Used Taxpayer-Funded Dues For Pricey Meeting At Legendary Casino

    10/17/2024 12:53:02 PM PDT · by DFG · 10 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 10/15/2024 | Robert Schmad
    A union representing roughly 1.8 million teachers and other educational workers used taxpayer-funded dues to book a trip to a famous casino and to pay for meals at luxury restaurants. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) spent over $370,000 on expenses at Caesars Palace, a luxury hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, disclosure forms show. In addition, the AFT also used dues collected from its members to help pay for trips to Europe and South America, as well as to pay off five-figure tabs at upscale restaurants. “My suspicion is that this is a case of ‘rank hath its...
  • Tim Walz is now facing formal accusations of premeditated s*xual assault after taking a 14-year-old boy to a local concert.

    10/14/2024 2:21:33 PM PDT · by MagillaX · 132 replies
    Cwr ^ | 10/14/2024 | cwr
    Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ running mate, has landed in hot water as shocking allegations emerged on social media. In what is now being labeled as the “big October surprise” for the Harris campaign, a user, going by @DocNetyoutube, accused Walz of having an ‘inappropriate’ relationship with a male student during his time as a professor and football coach. The claims also mention Walz visiting a gay bar with the student, which allegedly led to a school board investigation.
  • Students who invaded Stanford president’s office and injured cop slapped with felony charges

    10/13/2024 8:05:17 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 18 replies
    Campus Reform ^ | 11 June 2024 | Patrick McDonald
    Anti-Israel activists took over a building at Stanford University and thoroughly vandalized it before being arrested on Wednesday.The protesters are facing felony charges, and seniors in the group will not be allowed to graduate.Thirteen anti-Israel protesters who invaded and occupied Stanford University’s president’s office were charged with felonies by the school, with some being forbidden from graduating as a result. On Wednesday, the protesters forcefully entered the building that serves as the office of Stanford’s president and provost. The activists, who included 11 current students, left graffiti throughout the Main Quad before barricading themselves in the office building, such as...
  • Universities Are Doing Education Badly

    10/09/2024 4:02:41 AM PDT · by karpov · 20 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | October 9, 2024 | F. Andrew Wolf, Jr.
    One often hears liberal-arts professors, as well as college and K-12 administrators, advocating two ideas about academics in America: (a) the importance of a broad, well-rounded, liberal-arts education and (b) the equating of that education solely with the head, not the heart. In 1931, John Dewey chaired a national curriculum conference that declared the liberal arts important for “the organization, transmission, extension and application of knowledge” (emphasis added). That concept has given us the educational system we have today, and it is not what was promised. A “Well-Rounded” Education Don’t misunderstand my point; there is great value in a broad,...
  • Do We Need to Abolish Grading?

    10/07/2024 3:26:21 AM PDT · by karpov · 92 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | October 2, 2024 | George Leef
    Many generations of young Americans have learned in school under the grading system. We took tests in subjects and would find out how well we had done when the instructor returned them, often with red marks to show where we’d made mistakes. The instructor would go over the tests, often spending extra time on the questions that had given students the most trouble. Then we would move on to new material, followed by another test. At the end of the class, we’d receive an overall grade to indicate how well we had done—an A for excellent work, a B for...
  • Campus Pro-Hamas Events on October 7: What Should be Done?

    10/03/2024 6:29:03 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 20 replies
    Reason ^ | 3 October 2024 | David Bernstein
    The groups holding these events are quite openly and publicly telling you who they are and what they believe, and that's important information to have.At various universities around the country, Students for Justice in Palestine and other pro-Hamas groups are holding events on October 7. Some of these events celebrate Palestinian "resistance," while others, throwing in a blood libel for good measure, commemorate a non-existent genocide of Palestinians by Israel since the war in Gaza began. Let's recall what happened on October 7, 2023. Thousands of Hamas terrorists, followed by "civilian" hangers-on, attacked border towns in southern Israel along with...
  • How to Find an Authentic Christian College

    10/02/2024 3:38:10 AM PDT · by karpov · 21 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | September 27, 2024 | Graham Hillard
    Things should be what they are, in higher education as elsewhere. Colleges advertising a liberal-arts curriculum should immerse their students in literature, history, and philosophy. STEM giants such as Georgia Tech should provide, to the extent possible, world-class labs. Community colleges should offer affordable credits to local residents. The University of Alabama should teach football. (I’m joking. Mostly.) This principle is particularly true for religious schools, which have a special obligation to be faithful to their stated purposes. Zaytuna College, a Muslim institution in California, should (and does) teach the Koran. Jewish Yeshiva University ought not to shill for “Palestine.”...
  • Arizona State U. scholars condemn ‘white ownership’ of Shakespeare

    09/29/2024 5:22:48 AM PDT · by DFG · 61 replies
    The College Fix ^ | 09/26/2024 | Gabrielle Temaat
    Two faculty members condemned “white ownership” of Shakespeare and the state’s manipulation of black history during an “Appropriation Series” at Arizona State University last week. The scholars are pushing for changes in curriculum and leadership that reflect more “diverse” voices. During the panel, they spoke to eleven ASU students in the audience and other faculty members via Zoom. English Professor Ruben Espinosa argued that Shakespeare’s legacy has been manipulated for purposes of exclusion and viewed through a lens of “white superiority.” He said that for the Jan. 6 “insurrectionists” at the U.S. capitol, Shakespeare represents a symbol of “white exceptionalism”...
  • Voters voice opinions on Hillsborough County School Board's millage referendum

    09/29/2024 3:27:54 AM PDT · by 4Runner · 6 replies
    ABC Action News/WFTS Tampa Bay ^ | September 13, 2024 | Judie Salomone
    TAMPA, Fla. — The Hillsborough County School Board is asking voters to decide on a property tax increase to ensure competitive salaries to retain and recruit high quality teachers and staff. The referendum will be on the November ballot. We asked voters about the referendum and many of them support it since it benefits teachers. "Especially since COVID, it's more important than ever to retain the people who are the most important to giving our children an education," said Melissa Spring. If the millage passes, the tax will remain in effect for four years (July 1, 2025 to June 30,...
  • George Mason Law School: $13m Budget Deficit In FY25 ($38m Over 6 Years); Dean Charged With Balancing Budget And Maintaining #28 U.S. News Ranking

    09/27/2024 7:42:26 AM PDT · by george76 · 9 replies
    TaxProf Blog ^ | September 27, 2024 | Paul Caron
    George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School will have incurred more than $38 million in losses over five years by the end of its 2025 fiscal year, according to budget projections shared with the wider university's board of visitors at a meeting Thursday. The amount the Virginia-based law school is poised to lose by next year eclipses $30 million in naming gifts the school received in 2016 from an anonymous donor and the Charles Koch Foundation in honor of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The financial challenges come amid fallout over bombshell allegations against a former longtime...
  • The Great AP Score Recalibration

    09/25/2024 3:57:11 AM PDT · by karpov · 17 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | September 25, 2024 | Richard Phelps
    Average course grades tend to be lower in some college subjects than others. Engineering and the “hard” sciences, for example, retain reputations for being “harder” subjects than the humanities and social sciences, even though a naïve observer could just as well assume that students in the latter subjects are smarter. Do score-average comparisons really matter, though, in practical terms? After college, most graduates will be compared to one another from within their chosen fields. A “C+” engineering graduate will still be chosen ahead of a “C-” engineering graduate, just as an “A+” history grad will be chosen ahead of an...