Education

Call Me Pathologically “Woke”
Steve Nelson | April 2, 2021
In a recent New York Times column, conservative pundit Bret Stephens argued strenuously that divisiveness was ruining our great nation. He was specifically irritated by a proposed ethnic studies curriculum in California’s public schools. He hauled out

Neutral Doesn’t Work When Talking About Race
Asako Kurosaka-Jost | March 19, 2021
When people take a “neutral position” on race, it doesn’t work. This describes the main finding of a study I explored in my doctoral dissertation at University of California, Los Angeles. The study, conducted in

The Problem with Inclusion: Time to Shift to Belonging
Dwight Vidale | February 19, 2021
“Hummus…what’s that?” I remember asking my 9th grade white peers as we sat around the lunch table for the first time, aware of their looks and smirks because I did not know what it was.

Zoom is the Devil’s Work
Steve Nelson | February 5, 2021
Resist Remote Learning! “It’s like deja vu all over again.” – Yogi Berra I have no idea what the 20th century sage was referring to, but the quote is apt when considering the locomotive bearing

The college major system is archaic
Montana Denton | January 29, 2021
While much of the learning done in college is valuable, a significant proportion of students don’t actually use their undergraduate degree in their future career. Even though a college education is a useful experience with

Drained to exhaustion by online learning, students should be given less school work
Noa Appelbaum | January 22, 2021
I began to feel the adverse effects of online school while doing homework one night during our second week. My mind a relentless murmur of the same fatigue that seemed to unfocus my eyes and

How high schools failed victims of sexual assault
Emily Chang | January 15, 2021
Sexual assault may seem like a distant fear for some, but on college campuses, it is an everyday reality. Of course, the combination of freedom and alcohol creates a dangerous environment and enhances teens’ raging

Seeking a Pandemic Alternative to Tough Love
Jesse Pearson | January 2, 2021
My teacherly instinct is to embed love and encouragement into my pedagogy. I go out of my way to get to know my students, to learn their extracurricular interests, family structures, social problems, and athletic

I hate The Great Gatsby
Aron Ravin | December 26, 2020
Across the country, students are being brainwashed. The boomers blame social media, and they may be right. But there’s another kind of indoctrination that grinds my gears — I speak of the cult of the




