College writing center: Grammar is racist
Grammar is “racist,” proclaims the writing center at the University of Washington, Tacoma. In fact, everything’s racist. Language structure is “unjust.” “We promise to emphasize the importance of...
View ArticleI mentor
I’ve signed up to mentor an 11th grader — for the next three years — via iMentor, which is looking for mentors in San Jose, Oakland, Chicago and New York City. My year on the civil grand jury ends in...
View ArticleTide turns on Title IX investigations
Last week, California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have “codified the Obama-era Education Department’s guidance for how college campuses should deal with sexual misconduct, writes Reason‘s...
View ArticleCollege with autism: What helps
Kieran Barrett-Snyder, a star student in high school, flunked out of New York University, but succeeded at Rochester Institute of Technology, which has a special program for students with autism....
View ArticleNew Orleans improves — a lot
“After Katrina’s devastation, New Orleans embarked on the the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America,” writes David Leonhardt in the New York Times. New Orleans’ reforms raised...
View ArticleYou got into college. Now what?
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni has good advice on how to get the most out of college. Hanging with people from the same background may be comforting, writes Bruni. But it’s a “wasted opportunity”...
View ArticleWalk on the bewildering side
College should be where things “get more complicated, not less,” writes Lyell Asher, a Lewis & Clark English professor, in The American Scholar. Yet many students — and their teachers — avoid...
View ArticleTrying is not the same as achieving
Grading students based on effort rather than achievement is spreading from P.E. class to academic classes in high schools, but in colleges, writes Adam Ellwanger on the Martin Center blog. What’s known...
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