…for enthusiastically measuring the “disposition” of all prospective public school teachers to promote “social justice”—seem far more interested in structuring ideologically top-heavy curricula than in providing the practical guidance (tips…
…To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, a bestseller among education textbooks, Ayers offers a pedagogy that revolves around touchy-feely “exploration,” “social justice,” and “love.” Moravian College Professor Joseph Shosh…
…from the official worksheet of the Department of Education, is as follows: – Your Social Security Number and your parents’ Social Security Numbers if you are providing parent information; –…
…in which Amar and Johnson, quoting from Justice O’Connor’s opinion for the Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger, state these benefits: Among other things, a diverse student body facilitates “cross-racial…
…two weeks before he started his White House job last March, for forced redistribution of capitalist profits to minorities and Native Americans: “Give them the wealth!…No justice on stolen land!”…
…humane causes of global peace and social justice.” David Vine, a member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education in November, offered a lengthy…
…I could have made the case for Yiddish equally well in most areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences. – Linguistics provided the first academic home for Yiddish in America,…
…with other offerings at the school such as: – Introduction to Community Service Professions – Eco-Literacy and Social Justice Seminar – Politics and Power (first sentence: “Students largely run this…
10. Justice O’Connor now suggests that the social-science evidence on which it was based is shaky. 9. The social-science evidence on which it was based is getting shakier, as more…
…up against now.” Zinn himself added a few weeks ago that his hope was that his work will spread new rebellion, and “lead into a larger movement for economic justice.”…
…clarion call for the establishment of “social justice: on campus. Among other things, his notion of social justice consists of the unionization of faculty members and graduate students, and the…
At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, students can minor in social and economic justice without taking a single economics course.—Reported by E. Frank Stephenson on the Division of…
…students’ rights in higher education—the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) abandoned its de facto “social justice” criterion. Yet while the development made it harder for Education schools…
…it is hard to find much of the Great Conversation in “Mind.” “Social Science Inquiry,” still more generally, examines social science epistemologies and research methods. The social sciences core thus…
…that paints convicted criminals as victims of social injustice. The Brandeis Innocence Project, for example states on its website that America faces an “ethical crisis” of “200,000 innocent people” (10…
…of Education Arne Duncan visited Columbia Teachers College—seemingly the only institution still utilizing the since-abandoned NCATE policy of assessing each prospective teacher’s disposition to promote social justice. Duncan was blunt:…
…fail their oft-announced mission of “social justice” and equality. Perhaps we need every top university to institute an exchange program. What about something like this: every student at H-Y-P-etc. has…
…criticizing the Brooklyn Education Department’s “social justice” criteria. In response, I received a letter (addressed to “Robert Johnson, Ph.D.”) from 30 professors in the department, demanding—in the name of “academic…
…scowled the organization’s then-president, “that NCATE has a ‘social justice’ requirement. It does not. NCATE ‘requirements’ are spelled out in the Standards themselves where the phrase ‘social justice’ does not…
…relevant to political concerns (e.g., black study and women’s study programs, social justice programs, peace study programs, etc.), and launched programs promoting internships and the support of student activist groups…
…should be part of a liberal arts education to learn that racism is more than face-to-face abuse, and that social inequality is endemic to American society. However, too often the…
…subject of a great many conferences and articles. One article in the journal Transitions, argues that since social inequality adversely affects health, health workers must achieve “socially just cultural competence”…
…it placed in its accreditation standards in 2002 that allowed education schools to consider their students’ commitment to “social justice” in assessing whether those students had appropriate “professional dispositions” to…
…can thus claim. While the “production of knowledge” can legitimately be analyzed in terms of its social contexts and political influences, feminists in the academy have too often gone beyond…
…act like Madame Roland before the guillotine: “Oh, social justice, what crimes are committed in thy name.” Social justice activism has not only infiltrated college campuses, it pervades academic culture…
…events, Cornell ’69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University. To some the drama represented a triumph of social justice, paving the way for a new model of the…
…This money comes from my dues and promotes “social justice,” a concept conservatives reject. APSA’s lack of conservatives on the board explains this liberal activist policy. There are more examples,…
…the email.” The results of the hearing are expected next week. – The University of Ottawa “social justice agency” refused to fund a speech sponsored by the campus Hillel Society…
…go to a birthday party for “faith-based reasons,” the snoop-facilitator will step in and suggest the use of pro-diversity language that reflects a proper commitment to social justice. Daniel Hayward,…
…promote social justice.” Alas, positions taken by John McCain’s campaign frequently, if unintentionally, undermined the higher education arguments offered by conservative over the past two decades. The clearest example, of…