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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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