Fasten your seatbelts…we’re in for a rough ride. With impeachment dominating headlines, there were a bunch of stories that you might have missed. Here’s our weekly roundup of news n views:
The top Democratic contenders got together to talk about education. How did it go?
- Winners and losers from Curmudgucrat Peter Greene, at Forbes.
- Top ten lessons from Gadfly Steven Singer.
- Rankings from Carol Burris of the Network for Public Education, at DR.
Fired/not-fired from Wheaton, Larycia Hawkins still feels the pain, at CT.
The need to give an awkward speech on the first day of class is a small detail that offers a clue to how all-encompassing the changes in Hawkins’ life have been since she left Wheaton. “The further we get out from the job that I left,” she says, “it’s easier. But one of the things it has changed is how I introduce myself on the first day.”
Poll finds that “Christian nationalists” tend to think they will be punished if Trump loses in 2020, at RIP.
there is widespread belief among Christian nationalist Protestants that atheists will strip their essential political rights if they gain political power. . . . Christian nationalists see the next election as apocalyptical. If they win, then democracy continues; if they lose under the Trump banner, then they are destined for the gulags.
Zoiks: Billionaire gives $100 million to Yale to start Broad school-leadership program, at Forbes.
There’s little to point to in the last twenty years that would suggest that a slightly trained educational amateur who “thinks like a CEO” is a good bet for running a school system well. Broadies have certainly found their way to positions of power and established lucrative careers for themselves, but there is little evidence that they have benefited students.
Why do teachers get creeped out by this sort of school-leadership program? My three reasons here at ILYBYGTH.
He’s betting $100 million that I’m wrong…
Freshman at George Southern U gives a presentation on “replacement theory.” The university backed up his right to do so. At IHE.
“‘Diversity is our strength’ is a bare-faced lie,” he said. “I don’t care if you call me a racist.”
Rochester students walk out, at RDC.
Hundreds of students across the Rochester City School District protested the recent proposed layoffs of more than 200 district employees Monday. . . . “We care about our teachers,” [junior Maya Waller] said while walking on Main Street Monday morning. “It’s not right that their mismanagement of money is negatively impacting teachers, staff and students (who) weren’t there to make the decision anyway.”
Can a “Fairness to All Act” square the circle for evangelical colleges and LGBTQ issues?
- Chris Stewart says yes, at CT.
- CCCU’s Shirley Hoogstra says yes, at PS.
- We say no. But we do think there’s light at the end of this tunnel. Here at ILYBYGTH.
Southern Baptist Seminar boots instructor for being too anti-LGBTQ, at IHE.
[Robert Oscar] Lopez held other views outside the conservative mainstream, such as that homosexuality was inexorably linked to pederasty. Some called it hate speech. He said he based his insights on personal experience, and that being raised by a bisexual mother and her female partner made him socially awkward and led him to the “gay underworld” for a time.
Eventually, Lopez left California and secular academe for Southwestern [Baptist Theological Seminary]. The Texas institution doesn’t have tenure, but he thought he had found a permanent place among like-minded, socially conservative academics.
Things went well for Lopez for a while. But he couldn’t have predicted the events to come.
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