Tag: merit

The Diversity Problem on Campus | Opinion

James Fetzerblog

DORIAN S. ABBOT AND IVAN MARINOVIC , PROFESSORS Students sit on a bench in front of the library at the University of South Carolina on August 10, 2020, in Columbia, South Carolina (above). SEAN RAYFORD/GETTY IMAGES American universities are undergoing a profound transformation that threatens to derail their primary mission: the production and dissemination of knowledge. The new regime is titled “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” or DEI, and is enforced by a large bureaucracy of administrators. Nearly every decision taken on campus, from admissions, to faculty hiring, to course content, to teaching…

Who Benefits From Cancelling Achievement Standards?

James Fetzerblog

Philip Carl Salzman In 2021 there’s an outright holy war against scholastic achievement.   Oregon has passed a bill that suspends the requirement that students must be able to read, write, and do math to graduate from high school. Mathematics should be replaced, we are told, by “social justice” mathematics, in which there are no correct answers, and students must not be asked to show the calculations that led to their conclusions. Standard American English should no longer be the standard, and students should not be judged on the quality of…