On a first meeting, how long does it take a Harvard or Yale grad to let you know where he or she went to school?

The SAT added the writing part in 2006, and scores went down every year for a decade, save for two years when they were flat.

Mark Ramseyer on the history of the Comfort Women, and his subsequent academic battles, on today's podcast:

firstthings.com/media/the-stor…

Parents, keep your kids far, far away.

The parents' revolution has begun in the UK. Parents are rising up to take collective action for a smartphone free childhood. It will happen in many other countries by the end of this year:

afterbabel.com/p/the-revoluti…

This is how it works.

“The belief that student activists have some special claim to moral authority is … a common one. Aren't smart, idealistic students at least likely to be right most of the time?”

“Sadly, the answer is ‘no’.”

Timely take by ⁦Ilya Somin⁩. reason.com/volokh/2024/04…

Demand still far outweighs supply.

“Just let students read whatever they want!”

Except there’s little evidence that student choice fosters motivation and precisely zero that it improves reading achievement

Challenging, classical texts skillfully taught by a teacher. This is the way.

Honored to have joined Megyn Kelly on her show again.

We talked about the idiocy of student protest, the bad faith of the left’s crime narrative, and the civilization-destroying consequences of our current race-based attack on merit.

Free markets and cultural/religious/social conservatism do not go well together.

This is exactly the kind of language that the humanities gods of a political bent (Foucault, Althusser...) would renounce and dismantle. And yet, lefty profs assigning those figures in class are happy to take paychecks from these hegemonic institutions.

Collaborative learning, guide-on-the-side, student-centered pedagogy, metacognitive strategies . . . those innovations have performed so well, so well.

Actually, Student Movements Are Often Wrong. In Every Era. aei.org/education/actu…

The moment conservatives point out (persuasively) the rottenness of a lefty weapon, snap!, conservatives have 'weaponized' what was theretofore nothing but a penetrating concept, a benign intention.

The Woke Jesus movement is strong, says Lucas Miles on today's podcast:

firstthings.com/blogs/firsttho…

The double game of the liberals: on one hand, 'Everything is political,' 'There are no facts, only interpretations,' 'There is no innocent, value-free perspective'; on the other, 'Trust science' and 'Trust us, because we're sober and thoughtful, and we have credentials.'

College presidents are in a bind: go with campus dogma and let the protests continue till they peter out, or go with public opinion and break them up now?

Stanley Kurtz on Virginia's ELA standards:

nationalreview.com/corner/youngki…

Yes, and when conservatives sounded the alarm in years past, campus liberals and leftists mocked them and shrugged with all the complacency of lazy bureaucrats presiding over a safe monoculture.