This week’s review of the latest news ‘n’ views from around the interwebs:
Atheists for Jesus: Pulling evangelical voters to the left at FA.
Peter Greene on why teachers join unions.
Texas school board gives history another once-over, and Hillary Clinton is out. At DMN.
- Is there really no better way to choose history content? Here at ILYBYGTH.
- From the chair of the Texas school board: Here’s why we made our cuts, at WaPo.
Surviving purity culture at NPR.
In this culture, men and boys are talked about as being sexually weak and women and girls are supposed to be the holders of all sexual purity. So ultimately women and girls are responsible for the sexual thoughts and feelings and choices that men make, and it’s women and girls’ responsibility to dress right, to act right, to talk right, to do everything just right to ensure non-sexuality for all people — and if they don’t, they potentially risk being categorized as impure or as a harlot.
Parents in Leiyang riot over school quality, at The Economist.
A liberal ex-evangelical finds a church home, at NR.
Still no-go for yoga in many public schools, at The Atlantic.
What is behind the coddling of the American mind? It’s not just “safetyism,” says reviewer at IHE.
Students have not been coddled, they’ve been defeated.
Concerned scientists weigh in on removal of climate change and weakening of evolutionary theory in Arizona standards, at NCSE.
- Why wouldn’t the scientists make their strongest argument? Here at ILYBYGTH.
Queen Betsy misquotes Professor Haidt, at CHE.
Let’s call it ‘Haidt’s choice’: Pursue truth or pursue harmony.