This week the interweb’s series of tubes heated up with plenty of ILYBYGTH-related material. Here are some of the stories we might have missed:
It’s not just segregation. In NYT, John Rury and Derrick Darby on the history of racial imbalances in the rate of harsh school punishments.
- The numbers are astounding: in NYC schools, non-white students get arrested more often, according to ChalkBeat.
Leo Ribuffo at HNN on Trump, Nixon, and anti-Semitism in the Oval Office.
Inside the mind of school-choice maven Eva Moskowitz. Why do teachers call the NYC charter-school leader “Evil” Moskowitz?
Why is young-earth impresario Ken Ham mad at Princeton University?
- Here’s the ILYBYGTH take.
AG Sessions: Free speech for campuses, not for NFL sidelines.
“Why in the hell would I pay 60 grand a year to have my child’s life ruined?” Mary Poplin at Christianity Today on the dangers of “secular privilege” in higher education.
Can an academic journal nowadays publish a defense of colonialism? The latest on the Third World Quarterly hullabaloo from CHE.
What will make conservative parents happy? Michael Petrilli looks at school choice at National Affairs.
- We don’t agree. Charters and vouchers have always been a tactic of conservatives, never a goal in and of themselves. The main issues have been something different.
Harvard, Queen Betsy, and school choice: Peter Greene tears apart Devos’s Harvard speech.
Dan Knauss
/ October 2, 2017The “Christianaphobia” might be prevalent now. I don’t believe it was previously. But it depends how people present themselves.